Research Guides: Lesbian Studies: Politics & Social Movements

Databases and Article Citations

Below is a list of databases with sample citations to full-text articles about lesbian politics, politicians, and social movements. All available via the University of Kentucky Libraries.

EBSCOhost
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Underwood, Alice E. M. "The Politics of Pride." Harvard International Review, Spring 2011, Vol. 33 Issue 1, pp. 42-46.

Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America
Branch, Anthony D. "Mattachine Society." Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America. Ed. David Bradley and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Vol. 2. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 1998. p. 571.
Encyclopedia of Politics
Purdy, Elizabeth. "Gay and Lesbian Movements." Encyclopedia of Politics. Ed. Rodney P. Carlisle. Vol. 1: The Left. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2005. pp. 185-187.

Government, politics, and protest : essential primary sources by K. Lee Lerner editor.; Brenda Wilmoth Lerner editor.; Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner editor
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ISBN: 1414412630
Publication Date: 2006
Roberts, Scott. "Marching with a message." Toronto Star. June 26, 2005. In Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. pp. 107-110.

JSTOR
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Karlen, Arno. "The New lesbian politics & the decline of social science." Salmagundi, No.58/59 (Fall 1982-Winter 1983), pp. 300-307.
Nexis Uni
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Sappenfield, Mark. "Houston mayor race shows progress - and limits - of gay rights; Annise Parker, who is openly gay, was elected mayor of Houston Saturday. It makes Houston the largest US city to elect a gay or lesbian mayor." The Christian Science Monitor, December 13, 2009.

Shapers of the Great Debate on Women's Rights by Joyce D. Duncan
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ISBN: 9780313338694
Publication Date: 2008-10-30
Explores the three waves of feminism through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society. Joyce Duncan. Greenwood Press.

Sociological Abstracts
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Park-Kim, Soo Jin; Lee-Kim, Soo Youn; Kwon-Lee, Eun Jung. "The Lesbian Rights Movement and Feminism in South Korea." Journal of Lesbian Studies, 10. 3-4 (Jan 2, 2006), pp. 161-190.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
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How Did the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977 Shape a Feminist Agenda for the Future?, Documents selected and interpreted by Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin with research assistance by Sandra Henderson. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004).
Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture
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DAR II (Dyke for the Second American Revolution)
Minutes from February 6, 1975.

Book Titles

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Search the online catalog for book titles.

Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) for titles not found at UK.

Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure by Sara Warner
ISBN: 0472028758
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
The gay revolution : the story of the struggle by Lillian Faderman
Call Number: HQ76.8.U5 F33 2015
ISBN: 1451694113
Publication Date: 2015
In this book, Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred.
Language and the Politics of Sexuality : Lesbians and Gays in Israel by Erez Levon
Call Number: HQ76.2.I75 L48 2010
Publication Date: 2010
The lesbian South : southern feminists, the women in print movement, and the queer literary canon by Jaime Harker
Call Number: PS153.L46 H37 2018
ISBN: 9781469643366
Publication Date: 2018
In The lesbian South, Jamie Harker explores the literature of lesbian-feminist writers, feminist print culture, presses, and bookstores in the post-1960s American South.
Out and Running: Gay and Lesbian Candidates, Elections, and Policy Representation by Donald P. Haider-Markel
Call Number: HQ76.3.U6 H34 2010
ISBN: 1589016998
Publication Date: 2010
Queer intercultural communication : the intersectional politics of belonging in and across differences by Shinsuke Eguchi; Bernadette Marie Calafell
ISBN: 1538121417
Publication Date: 2020
The field of intercultural communication in U.S. academia has long struggled to disrupt the normative needs that necessitate its inquiry in the first place. This edited collection powerfully illuminates how and why (trans) queer (of color) critiques matter for the studies of intercultural communication.
Queer rebellion in the novels of Michelle Cliff : intersectionality and sexual modernity by Kaisa Ilmonen
ISBN: 9781443893435
Publication Date: 2017
This book explores Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff's (1946-2016) literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. Ebook available at UK.

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Websites

National Gay Lesbian Task Force
Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund
History of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Social Movements by Bonnie J. Morris, PhD
On June 12, 2016, the popular gay dance club Pulse in Orlando was the site of a mass shooting by one assailant.... The immediate, caring response by...demonstrates the enormous shift toward acceptance and public support for the LGBT community. ~APA website

Theses and Dissertations

Refer to the "Thesis and Dissertation Research" tab of this guide for more information on locating theses and dissertations.

"When We Go to Deal with City Hall, We Put on a Shirt and Tie": Gay Rights Movement Done the Dallas Way, 1965-2003 by Karen S. Wisly
Ph. D. dissertation at University of North Texas, 2018
All Things Not Being Equal: The Development of Lesbian Political Identity, by Carolyn Grace Peabody
Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1998
Blurring the Spectrum: Exploring Queer Conservatism by Austin P. Mejdrich
Masters Theses at Eastern Illinois University, 2018
Circle City Strife: gay and lesbian activism during the Hudnut Era by Samuel Evan Opsahl
Masters of Art at Indiana University, 2020
Did We Mention She's a Lesbian? A Case Study of Newspaper Coverage of New Brunswick NDP Leader Allison Brewer, the First Openly Gay Woman to Lead a Mainstream Political Party in Canada, by Michael Camp
Ph.D. diss., University of New Brunswick (Canada), 2007
Disrupting An(Other): Sexuality as Political Resistance by Emma C. Downey
Masters Theses at Bucknell University, 2020
Freedom Indivisible: Gays and Lesbians in the African American Civil Rights Movement by Jared E. Leighton
Ph.D. dissertation at University of Nebraska, 2013
The Nexus of Business & Politics: the Case of Same-sex Partner Benefits, by Ryne M Scott
Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2008
The Personal Is Historical: the Impact of Lesbian Identity on the Sonoma County Women's Movement and Beyond, by Emilie E. Roy
Ph.D (Thesis), Department of History, Sonoma State University, 2009
The Plague Wars: Encounters Between Gay and Lesbian Activism and the Christian Right in the Age of AIDS, by Ashley Ruth Lierman
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Drew University, 2009
The Right to Equality and Non-Discrimination of the LGBT Community. A Comparison Between the United States and Kenya by Michelle Nyaguthi
Bachelor thesis at Catholic University of Eastern Africa, 2017 [Request via Interlibrary Loan or Purchase Online]