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302 Lesbian life and culture


 Allies
Gossip : number five
Gossip : number four
Gossip : number one
Gossip : number sixGossip : number three
Lesbian community
Old lesbians/dykes
Queering : social movements and feminist theories
Trivia 10
Trivia 8

Adelman, Marcy (ed.)
Long time passing : lives of older lesbians

Ainley, Rosa
What is she like? : lesbian identities from the 1950s to the 1990s

Aldrich, Ann
We walk alone

Allen, Louise
The Lesbian idol : Martina, kd and the consumption of lesbian masculinity

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane (ed.)
Lesbian travels : a literary companion

Bright, Susie
Susie Bright's sexual reality : a virtual sex world reader

Brossard, Nicole; Wildeman, Marlene (trans.)
The Aerial letter

Brownworth, Victoria A.
Too queer : essays from a radical life

Brunetsky, Leslie
Real country : from the fast track to Appalacia

Byrne, Judith
Lesbians and tattoos

Cassidy, Jules; Stewart-Park, Angela
We're here : conversations with lesbian women

Cavin, Susan
Lesbian origins

Clunis, D. Merilee; Fredriksen-Goldsen, Karen I.; Freeman, Pat A.; Nystrom, Nancy M.
Lives of lesbian elders : looking back, looking forward

Copper, Baba
Over the hill : reflections on ageism between women

Coyote, Ivan E. (ed.); Sharman, Zena (ed.)
Persistence : all ways butch and femme

Cruikshank, Margaret
Lesbian studies : present and future

Curb, Rosemary (ed.); Manahan, Nancy (ed.)
Lesbian nuns : breaking silence

Flinn, Jan
Political lesbians in the nineties : research report

Freedman, Estelle B. (ed.); Gelpi, Barbara C. (ed.); Johnson, Susan L. (ed.); Weston, Kathleen M. (ed.)
The Lesbian issue : essays from Signs

Galana, Laurel; Covina, Gina
The New lesbians : interviews with women across the U.S. and Canada

Garber, Linda (ed.)
Tilting the tower : lesbians teaching queer subjects

Gershick, Zsa Zsa
Gay old girls

Gibson, Michelle (ed.); Meem, Deborah T. (ed.)
Femme/butch : new considerations of the way we want to go

Glamuzina, Julie
Out front : lesbian political activity in Aotearoa, 1962 to 1985

Grier, Barbara (ed.); Reid, Coletta (ed.)
The Lavender herring : lesbian essays from The Ladder

Harris, Laura (ed.); Crocker, Elizabeth (ed.)
Femme : feminists, lesbians, and bad girls

Healey, Emma
Lesbian sex wars

Holmes, Sarah (ed.)
Testimonies : a collection of lesbian coming out stories

Jay, Karla (ed.)
Dyke life : from growing up to growing old : a celebration of the lesbian experience

Khayatt, Madiha Didi
Lesbian teachers : an invisible presence

Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth
For the love of women : gender, identity and same-sex relations in a Greek provincial town

Laurie, Alison J. (ed.)
Lesbian studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Lorde, Audre
A Burst of light : essays

Lynch, Lee (ed.); Woods, Akia (ed.)
Off the rag : lesbians writing on menopause

Macdonald, Barbara; Rich, Cynthia
Look me in the eye : old women, aging and ageism

McHugh, Erin; May, Jennifer (photographer)
The L life : extraordinary lesbians making a difference

Mintz, Beth (ed.); Rothblum, Esther D. (ed.)
Lesbians in academia : degrees of freedom

Morris, Bonnie J.
The Disappearing L : erasures of lesbian spaces and culture

Neild, Suzanne; Pearson, Rosalind
Women like us

Nestle, Joan
A Restricted country

Noonan, Bode
Red beans & rice : recipes for lesbian health & wisdom

Ross, Becki L.
The House that Jill built : a lesbian nation in formation

Rule, Jane
A hot-eyed moderate

Sang, Barbara (ed.); Warshow, Joyce (ed.); Smith, Adrienne J. (ed.)
Lesbians at midlife : the creative transition : an anthology

Simpson, Ruth
From the closet to the courts : the lesbian transition

Soares, M.G. (ed.); Grahn, Judy; Donnelly, Nisa
Butch/femme

Trenchard, Lorraine (ed.); London Gay Teenage Group
Talking about young lesbians

Troka, Donna Jean (ed.); LeBesco, Kathleen (ed.); Noble, Jean Bobby (ed.)
The Drag king anthology

Turoff, Randy (ed.)
Lesbian words : state of the art

Vida, Ginny (ed.); Lightner, Karol D. (asst. ed.); Viger, Tanya (asst. ed.)
The New our right to love : a lesbian resource book

Wilton, Tamsin
Finger-licking good : the ins and outs of lesbian sex

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302.2 Lesbians and the media

Albert, Nicole G.
Lesbian decadence : representations in art and literature of fin-de-siècle France

Gever, Martha
Entertaining lesbians : celebrity, sexuality, and self-invention

Gibbs, Liz (ed.)
Daring to dissent : lesbian culture from margin to mainstream

Hamer, Diane (ed.); Budge, Belinda (ed.)
The Good, the bad and the gorgeous : popular culture's romance with lesbianism

Jamieson, Philippa
Marginal or mainstream? : lesbian book publishing in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Jay, Karla (ed.)
Lesbian erotics

Merck, Mandy
Perversions : deviant readings

Price, Deb; Murdoch, Joyce
And say hi to Joyce : America's first gay column comes out

Walsh, Chris
Wellington Lesbian Radio Programme report

303 Social processes, control, conflict

Berube, Allan
Coming out under fire : the history of gay men and women in World War two

Brenner, Claudia; Ashley, Hannah
Eight bullets : one woman's story of surviving anti-gay violence

Brittain, Vera
Radclyffe Hall : a case of obscenity?

Burke, Marc E.
Coming out of the blue : British police officers talk about their lives in 'the job' as lesbians, gays and bisexuals

Cammermeyer, Margarethe; Fisher, Chris
Serving in silence

Cogswell, Kelly
Eating fire : my life as a lesbian avenger

Cordova, Jeanne
When we were outlaws : a memoir of love & revolution

Cox, Gary; Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project (NSW)
The Count & counter report : a study into hate related violence against lesbians and gays

Faderman, Lillian
Scotch verdict : Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon

Gingrich, Candace; Bull, Chris
The Accidental activist : a personal and political memoir

Glamuzina, Julie; Laurie, Alison J.
Parker & Hulme : a lesbian view

Godwin, Nicola (ed.); Hollows, Belinda (ed.); Nye, Sheridan (ed.)
Assaults on convention : essays on lesbian transgressors

Gore, Ariel
The End of Eve : a memoir

Griffin, Pat
Strong women, deep closets : lesbians and homophobia in sport

Jackson, Donna
Honorable discharge : memoirs of an army dyke : the Donna Jackson story

Johnson, David K.
The Lavender scare : the cold war persecution of gays and lesbians in the Federal government

Kabakov, Miryam (ed.)
Keep your wives away from them : orthodox women, unorthodox desires : an anthology

Kirkman, Allison (ed.); Moloney, Pat (ed.)
Sexuality down under : social and historical perspectives

Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project (NSW); Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (Sydney, NSW)
The Off our backs report : a study into anti-lesbian violence

Long Breast Press Collective (ed.)
On for young and old : Australian intergenerational radical lesbian feminist anthology

Mutchler, Terry
Under this beautiful dome : a senator, a journalist, and the politics of gay love in America

Nordberg, Jenny
The Underground girls of Kabul : the hidden lives of Afghan girls disguised as boys

Post, Sue-Ann
The Confessions of an unrepentant lesbian ex-Mormon (or, hanging out with gay Mormons in Salt Lake City)

Rankine, Jenny
The Great late lesbian and bisexual women's discrimination survey

Schulman, Sarah
Stagestruck : theater, AIDS, and the marketing of gay America

Schulman, Sarah
Ties that bind : familial homophobia and its consequences

Taylor, Jean, 1944-
Stroppy dykes : radical lesbian feminist activism in Victoria during the 1980s

Thompson, Karen; Andrzejewski, Julie
Why can't Sharon Kowalski come home?

Wilson, Chana
Riding fury home : a memoir

305.4 Lesbian culture ...

Abbott, Sidney; Love, Barbara
Sappho was a right-on woman : a liberated view of lesbianism

Burana, Lily (ed.); Roxxie (ed.); Due, Linnea (ed.)
Dagger on butch women

Cruikshank, Margaret (ed.)
The Lesbian path

Cruikshank, Margaret (ed.)
The Lesbian path

Ettorre, E.M.
Lesbians, women and society

Hasselrodt, R. Leighton
Twilight women around the world

Klaich, Dolores
Woman + woman : attitudes toward lesbianism

Krieger, Susan
The Mirror dance : identity in a women's community

Lewis, Sasha Gregory
Sunday's women : a report on lesbian life today

Martin, Del; Lyon, Phyllis
Lesbian / woman

McEwen, Christian (ed.); O'Sullivan, Sue (ed.)
Out the other side : contemporary lesbian writing

Mulligan, Ea; Heath, Mary; Australian Lesbian Medical Association
Lesbian zest : tips on how to thrive and flourish

Munt, Sally R. (ed.)
Butch/femme : inside lesbian gender

Newman, Leslea (ed.)
The Femme mystique

Penelope, Julia
Call me lesbian : lesbian lives, lesbian theory

Wolf, Deborah Goleman
The Lesbian community : with an afterword, 1980

Wolff, Charlotte
Love between women

WomanShare Collective
Country lesbians : the story of the WomanShare Collective

305.8 Ethnic lesbian cultures

Anzaldua, Gloria
Borderlands : the new mestiza = La Frontera

Anzaldua, Gloria (ed.)
Making face, making soul = Haciendo caras : creative and critical perspectives by feminists of color

Bogus, SDiane
Dyke hands & sutras erotic & lyric

Brant, Beth (Degonwadonti) (ed.)
A Gathering of the spirit : a collection by North American Indian women

Cameron, Anne
Daughters of Copper Woman

Chung, C. (ed.); Kim, A. (ed.); Lemeshewsky, A.K. (ed.)
Between the lines : an anthology by Pacific/Asian lesbians of Santa Cruz, California

Cornwell, Anita
Black lesbian in white America

Eng, David L. (ed.); Hom, Alice Y. (ed.)
Q&A : queer in Asian America

Gomez, Jewelle
Forty-three Septembers : essays

Lim-Hing, Sharon (ed.)
The Very inside : an anthology of writing by Asian and Pacific Islander lesbian and bisexual women

Lorde, Audre
Sister outsider : essays and speeches

Mason-John, Valerie; Khambatta, Ann
Lesbians talk : making black waves

Mason-John, Valerie (ed.)
Talking black : lesbians of African and Asian descent speak out

McKinley, Catherine E. (ed.); DeLaney, L. Joyce (ed.)
Afrekete : an anthology of black lesbian writing

Moraga, Cherrie
The Last generation : prose and poetry
Loving in the war years

Moraga, Cherrie (ed.); Anzaldua, Gloria (ed.)
This bridge called my back : writings by radical women of color

Nkabinde, Nkunzi Zandile
Black bull, ancestors and me : my life as a lesbian sangoma

Paz, Juana Maria
The La Luz journal

Penelope, Julia (ed.)
Out of the class closet : lesbians speak

Ramos, Juanita (comp./ed.)
Companeras : Latina lesbians : (an anthology)

Silvera, Makeda (ed.)
Piece of my heart : a lesbian of colour anthology

Smith, Barbara
The Truth that never hurts : writings on race, gender, and freedom

Smith, Barbara (ed.)
Home girls : a black feminist anthology

Trujillo, Carla (ed.)
Chicana lesbians : the girls our mothers warned us about

305.9 Gender identity, Transgender

Bergman, S. Bear
Butch is a noun

Beyer, Georgina; Casey, Cathy
Change for the better : the story of Georgina Beyer

Bloom, Amy
Normal : transsexual CEOs, crossdressing cops and hermaphrodites with attitude

Boylan, Jennifer Finney
She's not there : a life in two genders

Brown, Mildred L.; Rounsley, Chloe Ann
True selves : understanding transsexualism : for families, friends, coworkers and helping professionals

Califia, Pat
Sex changes : the politics of transgenderism

Devor, Holly
Gender blending : confronting the limits of duality

Feinberg, Leslie
Trans liberation : beyond pink or blue
Transgender warriors : making history from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

Godoy, Esther (prod./ed.)
Butch is not a dirty word. Issue 3, The intergenerational issue

Godoy, Esther (ed.); Silver, Yossi (ed.)
Butch is not a dirty word. Issue 2, the family edition

Halberstam, Judith
Female masculinity
In a queer time and place : transgender bodies, subcultural lives

Narrain, Arvind
Queer : 'despised' sexualities, law and social change

Smedley, Georgia (photographer); Godoy, Esther (ed.)
Butch is not a dirty word

Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
The End of San Francisco

Vincent, Norah
Self-made man: one woman's journey into manhood and back

Volcano, Del LaGrace; Halberstam, Judith
The Drag king book

306.4

Boock, Paula
On make-up and makeover

306.7 Lesbian relationships, courtship

   Lesbian ethics v.4, no. 3 (spring 1992)

Abbott, Deborah (ed.); Farmer, Ellen (ed.)
From wedded wife to lesbian life : stories of transformation

Baetz, Ruth
Lesbian crossroads

Berzon, Betty
Permanent partners : building gay & lesbian relationships that last

Bilber, Audrey (ed); Kort, Michele (ed.)
Here come the brides! : reflections on lesbian love and marriage

Borich, Barrie Jean
My lesbian husband : landscapes of a marriage

Bulkin, Elly
Enter password: recovery : re-enter password:

Butler, Becky (ed.)
Ceremonies of the heart : celebrating lesbian unions

Califia, Pat
Public sex : the culture of radical sex

Califia, Pat (ed.); Sweeney, Robin (ed.)
The Second coming : a leatherdyke reader

Cartledge, Sue (ed.); Ryan, Joanna (ed.)
Sex & love : new thoughts on old contradictions

Cassingham, Barbee J,; O'Neill, Sally M.
And then I met this woman : previously married women's journeys into lesbian relationships

Daly, Meg (ed.)
Surface tension : love, sex, and politics between lesbians and straight women

Davis, Mary Jane
Now I can cry

Denson, Joan
Except for one little problem : memoir of a life in hiding

Dicinoski, Michelle
Ghost wife : a memoir of love and defiance

Elder, Lindsey (ed.)
Early embraces : true-life stories of women describing their first lesbian experience

Falk, Ruth
Women loving : a journey toward becoming an independent woman

Fleisher, Joanne
Living two lives : married to a man and in love with a woman

Johnson, Susan E.
Lesbian sex : an oral history

King-Miller, Lindsay
Ask a queer chick : a guide to sex, love, and life for girls who dig girls

Lobel, Kerry (ed.); National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (US). Lesbian Task Force
Naming the violence : speaking out about lesbian battering

Loulan, JoAnn
Lesbian passion : loving ourselves and each other

Loulan, JoAnn; Thomas, Sherry
The Lesbian erotic dance : butch, femme, androgyny and other rhythms

Martinac, Paula
The Lesbian and gay book of love and marriage : creating the stories of our lives

McNab, Claire; Gedan, Sharon
The Loving lesbian

Mueller, Dawn
A Single year

Munson, Marcia (ed.); Stelboum, Judith P. (ed.)
The Lesbian polyamory reader : open relationships, non-monogamy, and casual sex

Murphy, Marilyn
Are you girls traveling alone? : adventures in lesbianic logic

Penelope, Julia (ed.); Valentine, Sarah (ed.)
Finding the lesbians : personal accounts from around the world

Rabenold, Diana
Love, politics and "rescue" in lesbian relationships

Reynolds, Trish
Tricia's song : an incest survivor's story

SAMOIS
Coming to power : writings and graphics on lesbian S/M

Strock, Carren
Married women who love women

Swallow, Jean (ed.)
The Next step : lesbians in long-term recovery : Out from under, volume 2

Swallow, Jean (ed.)
Out from under : sober dykes and our friends

Taylor, Joelle; Chandler, Tracey
Lesbians talk violent relationships

Walsh, Candace (ed.); Andre, Laura (ed.)
Dear John, I love Jane : women write about leaving men for women

Weinstock, Jacqueline S. (ed.); Rothblum, Esther D. (ed.)
Lesbian ex-lovers : the really long-term relationships

Weinstock, Jacqueline S. (ed.); Rothblum, Esther D. (ed.)
Lesbian friendships : for ourselves and each other

West, Celeste
Lesbian polyfidelity : a pleasure guide for all women whose hearts are open to multiple sensualoves, or, How to keep nonmonogamy safe, sane, honest & laughing, you rogue!

Whitehead, Patricia
Experience of mothers who come out as lesbians in midlife : an analysis of transition and the implications for counselling practice

Wolfe, Susan J. (ed.); Penelope, Julia (ed.)
The Coming out stories

306.8 Lesbian families and parenting

   Lesbians and our mothers

Adelman, Marcy (ed.)
Midlife lesbian relationships : friends, lovers, children and parents

Arnup, Katherine (ed.)
Lesbian parenting : living with pride and prejudice

Askowitz, Andrea
My miserable, lonely, lesbian pregnancy

Athey, Phyliss Jean Kinheart; Osterman, Mary Jo Kinheart
The Lesbian relationship handbook

Becker, Carol S.
Unbroken ties : lesbian ex-lovers

Bernstein, Robert A.
Families of value : personal profiles of pioneering lesbian and gay parents

Borthwick, Prue; Bloch, Barbara
Mothers and others : an exploration of lesbian parenting in Australia

Burke, Phyllis
Family values : two moms and their son

Clunis, D. Merilee; Green, G. Dorsey
Lesbian couples : a guide to creating healthy relationships
Lesbian couples : creating healthy relationships for the '90s
The Lesbian parenting book : a guide to creating families and raising children

Donnelly, Nisa (ed.)
Mom : candid memoirs by lesbians about the first woman in their life

Dowrick, Stephanie (ed.); Grundberg, Sibyl (ed.)
Why children?

Elder, Lindsey (ed.)
Beginnings : lesbians talk about the first time they met their long-term partner

Fleming, Lee (ed.)
To Sappho, my sister : lesbian sisters write about their lives

Goodman, Bernice
The Lesbian : a celebration of difference

Hall, Marny
The Lesbian love companion : how to survive everything from heartthrob to heartbreak

Hanscombe, Gillian; Forster, Jackie
Rocking the cradle : lesbian mothers : a challenge in family living

Howey, Noelle (ed.); Samuels, Ellen (ed.)
Out of the ordinary : essays on growing up with gay, lesbian, and transgender parents

Johnson, Susan E.
For love and for life : intimate portraits of lesbian couples
Staying power : long term lesbian couples

Jullion, Jeanne
Long way home : the odyssey of a lesbian mother and her children

Lev, Arlene Istar
The Complete lesbian & gay parenting guide

MacPike, Loralee (ed.)
There's something I've been meaning to tell you

Maddox, Brenda
Married and gay : an intimate look at a different relationship

Martin, April
The Guide to lesbian and gay parenting

Miller, Amie Klempnauer
She looks just like you : a memoir of (nonbiological lesbian) motherhood

Moraga, Cherrie
Waiting in the wings : a portrait of queer motherhood

Muller, Ann
Parents matter : parent's relationships with lesbian daughters and gay sons

Pace, Anita L. (ed.)
Write from the heart : lesbians healing from heartache : an anthology

Pies, Cheri
Considering parenthood

Pollack, Sandra (ed.); Vaughn, Jeanne (ed.)
Politics of the heart : a lesbian parenting anthology

Rafkin, Louise (ed.)
Different daughters : a book by mothers of lesbians
Different mothers : sons and daughters of lesbians talk about their lives

Hauschild, Myra; Rosier, Pat
Get used to it : children of gay and lesbian parents

Rothblum, Esther D. (ed.); Brehony, Kathleen A. (ed.)
Boston marriages : romantic but asexual relationships among contemporary lesbians

Ruck, Anne
Lesbian mothers and gay donors : do they achieve the parenting experience they plan?

Saphira, Miriam
Amazon mothers

Seyda, Barbara; Herrera, Diana
Women in love : portraits of lesbian mothers & their families

Sherman, Suzanne (ed.)
Lesbian and gay marriage : private commitments, public ceremonies

Slater, Suzanne
The Lesbian family life cycle

Wakeling, Louise (ed.); Bradstock, Margaret (ed.)
Beyond blood : writings on the lesbian and gay family

Wells, Jess (ed.)
Lesbians raising sons : an anthology

West, Celeste
A Lesbian love advisor

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