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Labor on gender: Butch lesbians and trans men in a Sri Lankan Economic Processing Zone. 劳工论性别：斯里兰卡经济加工区的男同性恋者和变性人。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2515747

Themal Ellawala

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Izabella Gustowska's Victim series as a case of Queer Feminist Art in Central Eastern Europe. 伊莎贝拉·古斯托斯卡的《受害者》系列是中东欧酷儿女权主义艺术的一个案例。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2514360

Paweł Leszkowicz

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Introduction: What if the Earth was a Lesbian? 导言：如果地球是女同性恋会怎样？

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-05-06 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2497152

Sabine LeBel, Chandra Laborde

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"Among the characters from that chapter": Soviet medicalization of homosexuality in Lithuanian lesbian oral history narratives. “那一章的人物”：立陶宛女同性恋口述历史叙事中苏联对同性恋的医学化。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-04-23 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2485564

Rasa Navickaitė

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Correction. 修正。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2471671

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Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence. 酷儿犬的蜕变：女同性恋女权主义者半机械人政治和物种间的亲密关系在爱与暴力的生态。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2473971

Chloe Diamond-Lenow

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"You turn m/e inside out": Body models undone in The Lesbian Body. "你把男性/女性从里到外翻了个底朝天"：女同性恋的身体》中的身体模型。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2469370

Madeleine Collier

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Queering the ocean: Li Zishu's The Island of the Lost Plane. 汪洋：李子树的《失位岛》。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-16 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2461902

Aling Zou

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Lesbian women and attachment theory: A scoping review. 女同性恋与依恋理论：范围回顾。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2448794

Caitlin Edwards, Robert Allan, Sandra Taylor, Carin Graves

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Dissolving into the surf. 溶解在海浪中。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-15 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2427552

Macarena Gómez-Barris

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