Author: Elizabeth M. Ettorre
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: society, women, lesbians
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1980-03
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0710003307
ISBN-13: 9780710003300

Author: Joan Laird
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: families, lesbian, lesbians
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1999-03-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0231102534
ISBN-13: 9780231102537

This cutting-edge collection of articles examines the sociocultural context of the lives of lesbians and lesbian families and reveals how new insights about lesbian identities, experiences, and relationships can be integrated into clinical theory and practice. A family therapist, Joan Laird presents several clinical approaches to working with lesbians as individuals and in couple and parenting relationships and to viewing sexual orientation in its full complexity of race, class, gender, and cultural identity.Rich with clinical case studies and research on the everyday lives of lesbian families

Author: Larry Gross
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: media, america, men, gay, lesbians, invisibility
Number of Pages: 295
Published: 2002-02-15
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0231119534
ISBN-13: 9780231119535

A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media´s stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging "visibility" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling -an

Author: Monika Kehoe
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: research, homosexuality, themselves, speak, over, lesbians
Number of Pages: 111
Published: 1989-02-06
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0866568166
ISBN-13: 9780866568166

This pioneering effort is the first attempt to reach a nationwide representation of lesbian elders in order to understand this deeply hidden segment of our population. The women in Lesbians Over 60 Speak for Themselves candidly describe their necessarily secret lives in a hostile society--how they feel about being “different,” how they cope with the homophobia that surrounds them, their most pressing problems, how aging has affected them, as well as the most intriguing topic: their sexual behavior--as it was in their youth and as it is now. This powerful book provides fascinating demograph

Author: Carol T. Tully PhD
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: perspective, empowerment, gays, lesbians
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0231109598
ISBN-13: 9780231109598

The most comprehensive resource to date on the methods of empowerment with lesbian and gay clients, this book explores the history and politics of gay identity and explains the basis and development of the empowerment approach in social work practice in the United States. After analyzing the different types of homophobia (individual, institutional, and internalized) and how these are manifested in real life situations, Tully addresses the special needs and issues particular to three age groups: gay and lesbian youth, adults, and older clients. The author offers practical applications for the

Author: Adria E. Schwartz
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychoanalysis, gender, lesbians, subjects, sexual
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1998-01-07
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0415910927
ISBN-13: 9780415910927

Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age. Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine the construction of important categories of identity--woman, feminist, mother, lesbian, and homo/hetero/bisexual. Schwartz also addresses specific issues which are problematic but nonetheless meaningful to self-identified lesbians such as roles in gender play, lesbian "bed death," and raising non-trad

Author: Hilda Hidalgo
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: services, human, social, color, lesbians
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 1995-11-21
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 1560247517
ISBN-13: 9781560247517

Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services helps you understand the ways in which lesbians of color perceive important issues related to their oppression and discrimination by the dominant social service community. The authors’personalized accounts graphically depict the deep-seated impacts of society’s racism, sexism, and homophobia. This insightful book suggests effective ways of changing detrimental practices and agency policies that perpetuate oppression and discr