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Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority
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Secret Sisters: Stories of Being Lesbian and Bisexual in a College Sorority
Shane L. Windmeyer and Pamela W. Freeman (Editors)
Los Angeles: Alyson, 2000, 336 pages, $13.95 (softcover)
Out on Fraternity Row: Personal Accounts of Being Gay in a College Fraternity (Windmeyer & Freeman, 1998) broke the silence regarding the experiences of gay men in college fraternities. Now, because they did not want "the story about Greek life for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to be ...
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The gender closet: lesbian disappearance under the sign "women."
Feminist Studies
; Looking at women's studies from my Lesbian perspective and with my Lesbian feminist sensibility, what I see is that women's studies is heterosexual. The predominance of heterosexual perspectives, values, commitments, thought and vision is usually so complete and ubiquitous that it cannot be
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Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression.
The Women's Review of Books
; THE AUTHORS OF THESE TWO very different, though related, books both impress me with their feminist commitment from the very first pages. Mariah Burton Nelson extends the sentiments of Lame Deer through Alice Walker to affirm that Women [running, biking, swimming] make a landscape more beautiful.
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Crossing the border: locating heterosexuality as a boundary for lesbian and disabled women.
Journal of International Women's Studies
; Abstract This article draws on my personal experience, and on the separate experiences of 'leaving heterosexuality' and of 'being disabled. I have attempted to find common ground for action between these two groups by interrogating the experience of being sexual. I argue that heterosexuality
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Lesbian and bisexual women's health.(LESBIAN AFFAIRS)(Brief article)
Sister Namibia
; Lesbian and bisexual women's health is a concern for many women worldwide, but the information available on the subject is not as widespread as one would hope. In June 2005, Patricia Curzi, Women's Project Coordinator at the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), issued a call for
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NOW lesbian summit: feminist strategies/lesbian issues.(National Organization for Women's conference in Washington, DC, in Apr 23-25, 1999)
off our backs
; The National Organization for Women (NOW) held a national meeting on lesbian issues in Washington, DC, April 23-25. According to organizers, about 800 people attended. The meeting was Lesbian Rights Summit: A Feminist Strategy Session for Lesbians and Allies, and was held in a hotel within sight of
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The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989.
The Nation
; THE SAFE SEA OF WOMEN: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 Lesbians have always hd to be particularly determined, adept and creative readers if they wanted to see themselves represented in print. Lesbians criticism has long been carried on outside the university as a kind of individual,
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It's so much better than marriage You start off saying, `I am flexible'. Then you say, `I have lots of gay friends'. Then you say, `I'm bisexual'. And finally its: `Help! I'm a lesbian!' Why do wives leave their husbands for other women?
The Independent - London
; Dalis Walker has known her husband since she was nine years old. "He is absolutely my best friend. We were neighbours. I enjoyed hanging out with him. He is very much a part of my family. It was a question of, do I go with passion or do I marry my friend?" At the time she was only vaguely aware
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Drug and alcohol problems: heterosexual compared to lesbian and bisexual women.
The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
; Abstract. This exploratory study compared alcohol and drug use experiences of 19 lesbian/bisexual women and 19 heterosexual women matched according to age, race and socio-economic status. Participants were drawn from a larger study on the relationship between alcohol and family violence among
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In our own words: a lesbian writing project.(HUMAN RIGHTS)(Women's Leadership Centre)
Sister Namibia
; Twenty women from all over Namibia attended the first Right to Write Workshop conducted by the Women's Leadership Centre in partnership with the Rainbow Project and Sister Namibia in August for lesbian, transgender and bisexual women. During the three days spent together at the Harmony Centre
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Queer in southern MSW programs: lesbian and bisexual women discuss stigma management.(Master of Social Work)
The Journal of Social Psychology
; WHEN HIGHLY STIGMATIZED, a component of one's self is difficult to present, and managing the presentation is especially daunting (Goffman, 1963). Preliminary to any self-determined act of behavior there is always a stage of examination and deliberation which we may call the definition of the
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