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Defining "Lesbian Identity"
Below are suggested databases and article citation samples that discuss the development and definitions for the term "lesbian identity."
- Oxford Bibliographies in Art History
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Lloyd Whitesell. "Queer Musicology." LAST MODIFIED: 29 JULY 2020. Queer musicology is a field dedicated to the study of sexual and gender diversity as it relates to music. It may explore a sense of fluidity in the face of identity categories or binary thinking. - EBSCOhost
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Vicinus, Martha. "They wonder to which sex I belong; the historical roots of the modern lesbian identity." Feminist Studies; Fall '92, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p. 467, 31p.
Beals, Kristin P.; Peplau, Letitia Anne. "Identity support, identity devaluation, and well-being among lesbians." Psychology of Women Quarterly, Jun 2005, Vol. 29, Issue 2, pp. 140-148, 9p, 6 Charts. - InfoKat Discovery This link opens in a new window
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InfoKat Discovery allows you to quickly search multiple UK library resources simultaneously, including books, journal articles, dissertations, government documents, archives and special collections, images, maps, videos, music and open access content. InfoKat Discovery does NOT include all of the journal articles available through our databases. - Nexis Uni
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Reuters. "Island Greeks lose bid to keep term lesbian all to themselves." July 23, 2008, Wednesday, National Edition, NEWS; p. A3. - ProQuest Sociology Database
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Hammack, Phillip L; Cohler, Bertram J. "Narrative, identity, and the politics of exclusion: social change and the gay and lesbian life course." J. Sexuality Research & Social Policy8. 3 (Sep 2011): 162-182. - PubMed (NLM)
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Kevin Ka Shing Chan and Charles Chiu Hung Yip "The impact of psychological flexibility on sexual identity stress and well-being among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 2021;91(5):660-670. - Sociological Abstracts
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Wakeman, Melanie A; Orleans, Myron. "A Party for Ellen's Coming Out: the mediated and situated reflexive legitimation of lesbian identity." Confrence Paper: American Sociological Association, 1998. - Sociological Collection
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Gilmore, Stephanie; Kaminski, Elizabeth. "A Part and apart: lesbian and straight feminist activists negotiate identity in a second-wave organization." Journal of the History of Sexuality; Jan2007, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p95-113, 19p. - Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Radic, Damir. "Identity games, sadomasochism and the secret of lesbian love in Fadil Hadzic's Alphabet of Fear." HRVATSKI FILMSKI LJETOPIS Volume: 17 Issue: 65-66 Pages: 61-+ Published: SUM 2011. Language: Croatian
Liddicoat, Anthony J. "Sexual identity as linguistic failure: trajectories of interaction in the heteronormative language classroom." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE IDENTITY AND EDUCATION Volume: 8 Issue: 2-3 Pages: 191-202 Published: 2009.
Book Titles
Being single in India : stories of gender, exclusion, and possibility by ISBN: 9780520389434Publication Date: 2022Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides, from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage both by choice and by circumstance. Request via Interlibrary Loan
Black. Queer. Southern. Women : an oral history by ISBN: 9781469641119Publication Date: 2018[ProQuest Ebook Central] Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society.
Building fires in the snow : a collection of Alaska LGBTQ short fiction and poetry by ISBN: 1602233020Publication Date: 2016[JSTOR Books EBA] Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences.
Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport by Call Number: GV709 .C34 2015ISBN: 9780252080647Publication Date: 2015 2nd ed.In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it.
Pocket guide to LGBTQ mental health : understanding the spectrum of gender and sexuality by ISBN: 9781615373109Publication Date: 2020 1st ed.[ProQuest Ebook Central] A manual for mental health clinicians working with patients of diverse gender and sexual identities: lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, queer people, questioning people, intersex people, asexual people, pansexual people, and allied heterosexuals.
Sexuality, subjectivity, and LGBTQ militancy in the United States by ISBN: 9789048528646Publication Date: 2019[JSTOR Books EBA] As LGBTQ movements in Western Europe, North America, and other regions of the world are becoming more successful at awarding LGBTQ people rights, especially institutional recognition for same-sex couples and their families, what becomes of the deeper social transformation that these movements initially aimed to achieve?
The shape of sex : nonbinary gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by ISBN: 0231551363Publication Date: 2021history of "hermaphrodites" - as individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender binaries were called - from 200-1400 C.E. Request via Interlibrary Loan.
Academic Websites
- Dancing Across Borders: Women who Become Lesbians in Mid-Life, by Kristin HenryResearch Master thesis, Victoria University, 2003. Victoria University Institutional Repository, Melbourne, Australia
- The Dynamics of Multiple Dimensions of Identity for Lesbian College Students, by Elisa S. AbesOhioLINK ETD - Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Educational Policy and Leadership, 2004
- Is lesbian identity obsolete? by Ella Ben Hagai & Nicole SeymourWe posed this provocation in order to think through what has changed about lesbian identities and their articulations in the face of recent developments-from the rise of transphobia in the name of feminism to increased income inequality and gentrification and the accompanying loss of community spaces. 2022
- Lesbian and Gay ParentingThe publication is provided for the use of clinicians, researchers, students, lawyers and parents involved in legal and policy issues related to lesbian and gay parenting. Updated 2021.
- Lesbian Identity in the Subculture of Women's Bars by Nancy LisagorScholarly Commons: Repository at University of Pennsylvania Libraries. 1980
- Lesbian Veterans Experiences in the Military: A Case Study by Carolyn GustasonOpen Access Dissertation. UMass Amherst. Nursing 2017.
- Queering the Terrain: Lesbian Identity and Rights in International Law by Loveday Hodsonfeminists@law, Vol 7, No 1 (2017)
Loveday Hodson, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester, UK - Valuing a gay or lesbian self-Identity - Kansas State University"We at the Counseling Services affirm the value and importance of gay and lesbian people in our community, neighborhood, campus, and world. This self-help brochure provides a starting point for information to develop and establish a positive view of gay or lesbian self-identity." No Date
General Media Articles
- Can Lesbian Identity Survive The Gender Revolution? by Shannon KeatingMaybe the future really can be female. That depends on how we define it. 2017
- Does the death of a lesbian icon mark the end of the lesbian era? by Sarah PragerPhyllis Lyon was a U.S. lesbian pioneer. But with fewer self-identified lesbians than ever, what is the future of the term? 2020
- The gender-identity movement undermines lesbians by Pippa FlemingWhether it be in feminist studies, gender studies or the history of gay pride, black lesbians often go without their names or sexual orientation being mentioned. 2018
- How I Learned To Love My Lesbian Identity by Andrea Ngeleka"But as a kid in South Africa, I didn’t have the language for what she was — I only knew the word “gay.” I knew so little about what it meant that she dressed as she did, and she had short hair, and that those things had little to do with who she chose to love. I just understood that she wasn’t the norm." 2018
- Understanding Gay & Lesbian Identities. The Trevor Project. Aug. 20, 2021Gay and lesbian people have the capacity to form attraction and/or relationships with a person of the same gender.
- Why Lesbian Identity Matters by Mona ShattellToday’s social movement toward equal civil rights for all LGBTQ people has unleashed a host of reactions from well-meaning folks who have yet to understand why sexual and gender identity matter. Updated 2016