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![Lesbian Texts and Subtexts: [De] Constructing the Lesbian Subject in Charlotte Bronte's Villette and Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
Lesbian Texts and Subtexts: [De] Constructing the Lesbian Subject in Charlotte Bronte's Villette and Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca
... fact, lesbian scholarship still maintains a secondary, if not inferior, location within both women’s studies and gay studies, a position that has motivated many lesbian scholars to reevaluate these ...
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Relighting the fire : visualizing the lesbian in contemporary India
... the lesbian towards the queer, this article revaluates the lesbian in Fire as a figure that goes beyond an erroneous or neo-colonial imposition of Western politics and desire in a South Asian ...
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Transformations: Writing On/the Lesbian Body
... Transformations Writing On/the Lesbian (Body) by Amy COW^ the osmotic, lively breathingsur fices of your skin like words in the more elusive glissement, glid L huteurc examine les possibilitis ing lik[.] ...
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Resisting and conforming to the ‘lesbian look’ : the importance of appearance norms for lesbian and bisexual women
... which lesbian and bisexual identities and affiliation to LGB subculture can be ...by lesbian women to communicate a non-heterosexual ...of lesbian style in the last couple of decades, which has ...
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US National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-Year-Old Adolescents
... prospective lesbian mothers volunteered for a study that was designed to follow planned lesbian families from the index children’s conception until they reached adult- ...of lesbian mothers were ...
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Masculinity in lesbian discourse: the case of butch and femme
... a lesbian persona; her suggestion that Marianne should enforce some rules with her partner implies that Claire behaves in this way ...of lesbian relationships and that the people concerned are women, this ...
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Introducing lesbian, gay and bisexual appearance psychology
... 1970s, lesbian feminists argued that in order to express their resistance to heteropatriarchal culture, women should reject all aspects of appearance associated with dominant heterosexual femininity (butch style ...
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Social work students' attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Namibia: Results from an exploratory study
... the lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) community and illuminate the various ways in which attitudes influence practice ...and lesbian foster care (Brooks and Goldberg 2001), adoption (Newman, ...
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Can't see the forest for the trees : insider/outsider perspectives on the Wellington lesbian community(s) : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... invitation to participate in this research was met with silence from the core, visible, lesbian subgroup of the wider lesbian community; instead, the lesbian participants are self-identi[r] ...
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Experiences of self-injury in lesbian and bisexual women
... There were a range of different perceptions represented in the conversations and mail I received from potential participants and other interested individuals prior to the start of the interview period. A few were ...
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Girl meets girl: sexual sitings in lesbian romantic comedies
... “obscene lesbian”— locating the lesbian body as a site of spatial contestation—but is soon accosted by four male skinheads who, on seeing her, aggressively proposition her and (unsuccessfully) attempt to ...
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Lesbian brides:post queer popular culture
... norms lesbian characters on mainstream television dramas like Coronation Street and Glee, are visually indistinguishable from their heterosexual ...The lesbian normal might be read as a ...
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Principal Longevity, Leadership Behaviors, and Student Academic Achievement
... According to a 2012 Gallup poll, it is estimated that about 3.5% of the United States population identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) (Gallup, 2013). Research has shown that members of this ...
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Social representations of motherhood constructed by lesbian mothers
... A descriptive-exploratory study with a qualitative approach, anchored in the Theory of Social Representations, held in the city of Recife, capital of Pernambuco, Brazil. The participants who comprised the sample were ...
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Counseling lesbian patients about getting pregnant.
... You give Lisa and Jennifer a reference for a book on lesbian parenting and guide them to the websites of 3 sperm banks. You review the risks and benefi ts associated with using fresh and frozen semen and known or ...
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A critical exploration of lesbian perspectives on eating disorders
... Perhaps not surprisingly, our analysis illustrates both similarities and differences in lesbian and heterosexual women’s accounts and the meanings they attribute to their ‘anorexic’ and ‘bulimic’ subjectivities ...
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Older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people
... consequently, older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people have often been invisible in service provision for older people. Older LGB people’s needs may be, in some respects, no different from those of other older ...
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Comics, graphic narratives, and lesbian lives
... transformed lesbian and gay life in the past decades, moving it from the dangerous realms of social ostracization to the forefront of political debates in countries across the world, the gendered and racialized ...
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Beyond Ideologies: Understanding Violence in Lesbian Relationships
... Beyond Ideologies By Janice L Ristock e all h o w too well that in our lives as women we live under the threat of male violence All girls and women are potential targets Given this larger social conte[.] ...
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Does a Lesbian Need a Vagina Like a Fish Needs a Bicyle? Or Would the "Real" Lesbian Please Stand Up!
... O Alison Bechdel, published by Firebrand Books, Ann Arbor, M/ Reprinted with permission CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIESILES CAHIERS DE LA FEMME Does A Lesbian Need a Vagina Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle? Or, Wou[.] ...
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