Showing titles in Lesbian Studies

The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of individuals who inhabited its crowded cells.

Il 16 giugno 1743 sulla strada per Siena un giovane servitore in fuga d'amore con la sua bella viene raggiunto dagli inseguitori; ferito da un'archibugiata, morirà pochi giorni dopo. Componendone le spoglie, all'ospedale si scopre che quel garzone, già in fama di dongiovanni impenitente, è in realtà una donna. Un medico famoso si appassiona al fatto e lo ricostruisce: Caterina Vizzani, questo il suo nome, per otto anni si era finta uomo per poter seguire, al riparo di un'identità maschile, la sua allora illecita inclinazione per le donne.

Whether you're working on self-acceptance, navigating mental health challenges, or looking to become a more active advocate, this guide is your essential resource. Start your journey toward empowerment, resilience, and change today!

Meet Anne Lister, the 18th-century landowner, industrialist, explorer, lesbian and feminist icon. This is her story.... Anne was different from society’s expectations of a woman at the time: she not only did not wish to marry, but she also did not want to conform. Anne was interested only in women and had ‘marriage’ ceremonies with Mariana Lawton and later Ann Walker. She spent a great deal of time studying, managed her own estates, sought business opportunities, travelled widely and climbed mountains.

Dating by Persuasion is the ultimate source for obtaining tools based on research that will allow you to better understand the psychology of attraction, how to become more attractive (inside and out) for the woman you want, and how to maintain this attraction. This audiobook is exclusively written for lesbian, bisexual, and bicurious women for the purpose of attracting their ideal women into their lives.

Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes listeners from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front to Southern California in the early '70s, where she continued in the battle for gay civil rights. We see her helping to organize the takeover of The Ladies Home Journal and “ogle-ins” - where women staked out Wall Street and whistled at the men.

Is your relationship "always about her?" Does it seem condemned to an endless break-up/make up cycle? Do your friends think your girlfriend is bad news? If you are stuck in a confusing, exhausting, crazy-making relationship and looking for a way to make sense of your girlfriend's self-centered, erratic, or volatile behavior, you need The Wise Lesbian Guide to Getting Free from Crazy-Making Relationships and Getting On With Your Life.

This beautifully produced book contains the landmark work of the most influential lesbian photographers in the world, including Morgan Gwenwald, Della Grace, Diana Blok, Tee Corrine, Jill Posener, and Honey Lee Cottrell. Beyond the impact of the individual photographers, Bright writes about the themes that have fueled lesbian photography, including the feminist approach to the body and the lesbian relationship to popular culture.

Michigan. To tens of thousands of womyn from around the globe, the word meant not a state in the upper Midwest of the U.S., but a state of mind, a state of freedom. A culture, a community, a revolution. The Land. From 1976 to 2015, the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival was home ground for the lesbian feminist movement. There we strove to embody the principles of matriarchal feminism and bring that wisdom to life in every aspect of the town we created, and the values that guided our lives together.

StoryCorps OutLoud sets out across the country to record and preserve the stories of LGBT individuals along with their families and friends. OutLoud is a project undertaken in the memory of Isay's father, psychiatrist Dr. Richard Isay. Professionally credited for helping to persuade the mental-health community that homosexuality is not a mental disorder, Dr. Isay was himself a closeted gay man for many years.

Nanette no fue solo un espectáculo de stand-up insuperable, fue también un arrollador éxito viral que cautivó al público por su sinceridad desgarrada y por su habilidad para generar a un mismo tiempo tensión y risa. El éxito mundial de Gadsby podría hacernos creer que la fama le llegó de la noche a la mañana, pero el camino que la llevó a lo más alto de la escena internacional fue en realidad bastante tortuoso.

During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding anti-homosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations - not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed.

This monumental series bridges the gap between academic theology and personal faith, providing comfort and affirmation for queer Christians, and sparking thoughtful discourse in religious studies.

A grassroots tour of the nation's lesbian bars that illuminates their past, present, and hopeful future, from the host of the hit podcast Cruising.

An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its...

Navigating lesbian life? From tackling Lesbian Bed Death and strap-ons to handling workplace microaggressions and discovering your second family, Helen Scott, your lipstick femme in chief, is here to lead the way to Gay Town. Dive into this part-memoir, part-guide, and embrace the the highs and lows of navigating lesbian life in the modern world. Candid, wise, bold and hilarious - it's time to reclaim the L in LGBTQ+.

La existencia del brillante editor jubilado Javier Salazar transcurre apacible y confortablemente en su elegante piso de Madrid. Tiene la sensación de hallarse por fin equilibrado y apaciguado, compensado en cierto modo por la vida... Hasta que una tarde de lectura interrumpida le conduce a un parque y al encuentro con un muchacho malagueño, Ramón Durán. El inicio de una relación entre ambos disparará antiguos resortes de la conciencia: atormentada, reservada, cargada de brillantez y encanto, pero también de desprecio, vanidad, soberbia y afán de destrucción.

Sumida en una depresión profunda y en una espiral autodestructiva de alcoholismo y sexo desmedido, Silvia decide volver a casa, dispuesta a enfrentarse a sus sombras más oscuras. Los años de abuso sexual sufridos durante su infancia, la confusa búsqueda por su propia identidad y las cicatrices emocionales de un hogar disfuncional estaban acabando con su vida.

The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today.

"Healing Rainbows" Exposes every Biblical Myth & Misunderstood Scripture used to condemn the Gay Community. This is NOT a book promoting Gay or Trans rights, etc. The Author is a Straight Christian Man who used to use scriptures to attack the Gay community but after much study realized he was wrong. If you are a member of the LGBT communities & concerned that you are going to Hell or If you are a Parent torn between Accepting your LGBT Child or Obeying God & His Word, then this book, "Healing Rainbows" is for you.