Defining "Lesbian Identity"
Below are suggested databases and article citation samples that discuss the development and definitions for the term "lesbian identity."
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EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowVicinus, 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. -
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowReuters. "Island Greeks lose bid to keep term lesbian all to themselves." July 23, 2008, Wednesday, National Edition, NEWS; p. A3.
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ProQuest Sociology Database This link opens in a new windowHammack, 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.
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowWakeman, 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.
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Sociological Collection This link opens in a new windowGilmore, 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.
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Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowRadic, 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.
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Book Titles
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InfoKat Discovery This link opens in a new windowInfoKat 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.
Search the online catalog for book titles.
Use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) for titles not found at UK.
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Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space by Call Number: HQ75.5 .M85 1998bPublication Date: 1998 -
Lesbian and Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves by Publication Date: 1997Request via Interlibrary Loan -
Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture by Publication Date: 2010Request via Interlibrary Loan -
Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity by Call Number: HQ75.5 .W35 2001Publication Date: 2001 -
Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity by Call Number: PS228.L47 K46 2003Publication Date: 2003 -
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America--a History by Call Number: HQ75.6.U5 F35 1999Publication Date: 1999 -
Coming on strong : gender and sexuality in women's sport by Call Number: GV709 .C34 2015Publication Date: 2015 -
Identities on the move : contemporary representations of new sexualities and gender identities by Publication Date: 2015 -
Lesbian, queer, and bisexual women in heterosexual relationships : narratives of sexual identity by Call Number: HQ75.5 .T33 2016Publication Date: 2016 -
Same-sex marriage, context, and lesbian identity : wedded but not always a wife by Call Number: HQ1034.U5 W47 2015Publication Date: 2015
Academic Websites - Sources
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Dancing Across Borders: Women who Become Lesbians in Mid-Life, by Kristin HenryResearch Master thesis, Victoria University, 2003. Victoria University Institutional Repository, Melbourne, Australia
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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
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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.
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Lesbian Identity in the Subculture of Women's Barsby Nancy Lisagor, Scholarly Commons: Repository at University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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Lesbian Veterans Experiences in the Military: A Case Study by Carolyn GustasonOpen Access Dissertation. UMass Amherst. Nursing 2017.
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Queering the Terrain: Lesbian Identity and Rights in International Law by Loveday Hodsonfeminists@law, Vol 7, No 1 (2017)
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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. "
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‘Lesbian’ in a Post-Lesbian World?: policing identity, sex and image by Clare Farquhar [.pdf]London, England - South Bank University
General Media Articles
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Can Lesbian Identity Survive The Gender Revolution? by Shannon KeatingMaybe the future really can be female. That depends on how we define it.
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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?
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The Enlightened Woman by Renata Critton-PappMedia Circulation and Lesbian Identity in Weimar Germany.
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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.
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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."
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The Renegades by Kerry MandersQueer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
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Why I love my butch lesbian identity by Grace WalshIt's so powerful for butch women to take that feeling of hate and being 'incorrect', and turn it into something amazing.
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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.