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The Lesbians and Policing Project: police monitoring in defence of dangerous lesbian-ness in 1980s London.

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2448064

Will Jackson, Helen Monk

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Old growth feminism: Interspecies & intergenerational intimacies on lesbian land.

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2406681

Elana Margot Santana

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Queering as a tool of narrative knowledge in Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy and The First Person and Other Stories.

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2448346

Attila Dósa

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Sharing the illumination: Audre Lorde's pedagogies of difference.

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2447665

Danica Savonick

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Fifty-four years of living on the land. 在这片土地上生活了 54 年。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2400646

Carmen Goodyear

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"Then you tell me you've fallen in love with a tree": Queer ecologies in Ali Smith's short stories. "然后你告诉我你爱上了一棵树"：阿里-史密斯短篇小说中的同性恋生态。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-31 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2403878

Laura Schmitz-Justen

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Pockets of tenderness: Lesbian earth in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. 片片温情：艾莉森-贝希德尔的《欢乐之家》中的女同性恋大地。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-20 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2417912

Katie Hogan

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A systematic review of the prevalence and associated factors of mental health conditions among lesbian, bisexual, and other sexual minority women in Southeast Asia. 东南亚女同性恋、双性恋和其他性少数群体妇女精神健康状况的流行率和相关因素的系统性回顾。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2415236

Rowalt Alibudbud

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Environmental Eros: the films of Barbara Hammer as "Creative Geographies"¹. 环境爱神：芭芭拉-哈默作为 "创意地理学 "的电影1。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-11 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2396711

Lauran Whitworth

{"title":"Environmental Eros: the films of Barbara Hammer as \"Creative Geographies\"1.","authors":"Lauran Whitworth","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2024.2396711","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10894160.2024.2396711","url":null,"abstract":"In her 1978 essay \"Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,\" Audre Lorde avers, \"The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have often turned away from the exploration and consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information\" (1984, p. 54). Part of our maligning of the erotic, according to Lorde, is our separation of the spiritual from the erotic, a holdover of enlightenment thinking that insists on parsing apart that which is thought from that which is felt and sensed. This paper examines 1970s lesbian-feminist esthetics, specifically the works of American avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019), to delineate an environmental eros, in which more-than-human nature is a source of erotic inspiration and interspecies connection. Just as Lorde theorizes the erotic as a \"reminder of [one's] capacity for feeling and joy\" (1984, p. 56), environmental eros understands the erotic as expansively sensual and sensory instead of solely sexual. My close readings of Hammer's films Dyketactics (1974), Women I Love (1976), and Multiple Orgasm (1976) challenge critiques of these materials as escapist relics of an essentializing past. Instead, I use feminist and film phenomenological theory to argue that the natural environment was an actor in radical re-imaginings of subjecthood and relationality that constitute an eco-erotic ethics with clear implications for contemporary environmental politics and ecological feminisms.","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A retrospective study of sexual minority women's gendered sexuality: Butch and femme sex at the turn of the 21st century. 性少数群体女性性别性行为的回顾性研究：21 世纪之交的男同性恋和女同性恋性行为。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2411482

Ally B Hand, Kelsey A Kehoe, Cali Panesis, Heidi M Levitt

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