Sex and sensibility
stories of a lesbian generation
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Author
Publication
1997 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL975442M
- ISBN-100520202570
- OCLC Control Number42329998
- OCLC Control Number34356161
- OCLC Control Numbersexsensibilityst00stei
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96012500
- LibraryThing499772
- Goodreads5038321
Classifications
- DDC306.76/63
- LCCHQ75.5 .S75 1997
Description
In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a radical generation of feminists and its successors. Tracing the evolution of the lesbian movement from the bar scene to the growth of alternative families, Stein illustrates how a generation of women transformed the woman-centered ideals of feminism into a culture and a lifestyle.
Description
In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein adds an essential chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a revolutionary generation of feminists and its successors. Beginning with the stories of thirty women who came of age at the climax of the 1970s women's movement - many of whom defined lesbianism as a form of resistance to dominant gender and sexual norms - Stein explores the complex issues of identity that these women confronted as they defined themselves in relation to their communities and to society at large.
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