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Generational legacies and quality of life for black lesbians in their retirement years. 黑人女同性恋者退休后的代际传承与生活质量。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2548104

Mignon R Moore, Estela B Diaz

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Ali Smith's queer autobiocritical aesthetics. 阿里·史密斯的酷儿自传体批评美学。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2025.2461903

Mark Llewellyn

{"title":"Ali Smith's queer autobiocritical aesthetics.","authors":"Mark Llewellyn","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2025.2461903","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10894160.2025.2461903","url":null,"abstract":"Ali Smith's allusive relationship to the literary and cultural canon is a prominent feature of her writing life. Smith's works offer a rich and diverse perspective on the magpie-like appreciation of cultural mo(ve)ments as accretive and cumulative sites of creative re/construction. But they also provide a sense of the writer as reader, thinker and re-visioner of personalised literary and cultural canons including not only books but paintings, films and music. In this essay, I explore Smith's work through what I term the \"autobiocritical\" - that is literary texts which serve to play with notions of identity, authorial positioning and critical approaches via an allusive, metafictional and theoretically informed exploration of fiction, form and self-representation. The essay focuses on Smith's Artful (2012) in which I suggest she engages in a complex process of homage and adaptation that is invested in the queering of the acts of reading, re-reading and critical perspective. Smith's subversive approach to the nature of critical analysis when divested of personality, character and readerly interaction presents a degree of cynicism and scepticism about the role of the aesthetic when anaesthetised from the quirks and individualities of character and of reading - that are central to Smith's aesthetic.","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":" ","pages":"153-169"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143558325","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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"How do we do that?" An analysis of TikToks by lesbians over age 30 representing sexual identity, lived experience over time, and solidarity. "我们该怎么做？30 岁以上女同性恋者对 TikToks 的分析，代表了性身份、长期生活经历和团结。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2369431

Hannah Jamet-Lange, Stefanie Duguay

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Audre Lorde and queer ecology: An ecological praxis of Black lesbian identity in Zami. 奥德丽-洛德与同性恋生态学：扎米》中黑人女同性恋身份的生态实践。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2362115

Malini Sheoran

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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 : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-20 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2417912

Katie Hogan

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Black roses: The womanist partnership of Frances Reynolds Keyser and Mary McLeod Bethune. 黑玫瑰Frances Reynolds Keyser 和 Mary McLeod Bethune 的女性主义伙伴关系。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2385714

Veronica Popp

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A Retrospective Study of Sexual Minority Women's Gendered Sexuality: Butch and Femme Sex at the Turn of the 21^st Century. 性少数群体妇女性别性行为的回顾性研究：21 世纪之交的男性化和女性化性行为。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2406161

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

{"title":"A Retrospective Study of Sexual Minority Women's Gendered Sexuality: Butch and Femme Sex at the Turn of the 21st Century.","authors":"Ally B Hand, Kelsey A Kehoe, Cali Panesis, Heidi M Levitt","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2024.2406161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2024.2406161","url":null,"abstract":"This study is a retrospective examination of how sexual minority women have experienced their sexuality. The analysis examined a national archival dataset that was collected online in the US and Canada to examine the relationship between gender and sexuality in 1084 sexual minority women in 2003, with a focus on butch and femme identities. It provided an understanding of how gender and sexuality interacted at the turn of the last century when the gender identity landscape differed from that of today. While this study collected data from butch and femme women approximately 20-years ago, the results have implications for how we develop situated understandings of the relationship between gender and sexuality. Findings indicated gendered patterns in sexual preferences and attraction that can shed light on how gender and sexuality have evolved in connection. At the same time, there were no differences in sexual satisfaction, which suggests that the enactment of gendered sexuality (in which attraction is structured by a gender dynamic) was experienced as empowering rather than oppressive. We examine our findings in relation to current scholarship on gendered sexuality to consider how sexuality is constructed and reconstructed across time. The findings support a view of gendered sexuality as a source of pleasure, affirmation, and positive embodiment. We theorize gendered sexuality as functioning to enhance experiences of authenticity and resist heteronormativity. The study holds implications for research on the interaction of gender and sexuality.","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356102","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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The earth is a big badass butch dyke in menopause. 地球是一个处于更年期的大坏蛋。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2395223

Beth Stephens,Annie Sprinkle

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The lezurrection: lesbian identity in queer times. 女同性恋复活：同性恋时代的女同性恋身份。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2401261

Maura Ryan Bernales

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Some Liked It and Some Did Not: (Re)Circulating Lesbian Culture Among Queer Generations. 有些人喜欢，有些人不喜欢：女同性恋文化在同性恋世代中（再）流传。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-13 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2024.2401258

Andrea Keber

{"title":"Some Liked It and Some Did Not: (Re)Circulating Lesbian Culture Among Queer Generations.","authors":"Andrea Keber","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2024.2401258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2024.2401258","url":null,"abstract":"Naming oneself, and claiming an identity and a community, depends largely upon how people define and represent themselves, and whether that self-definition and representation is accepted by, or legible to, others who inhabit different social positions based on age, gender, sexuality, and often generation. My aim is neither to rehabilitate the lesbian past or lesbian words for identity, nor to reject the increasingly broad use of the term queer. Rather, as a Generation X lesbian, I contend that lesbian culture, identity, and community continue to have much to offer for other categories of queerness that are similarly \"untidy\", contested, or less well-understood by the mainstream. Approaching lesbian history, culture, and identity as dynamic and complex broadens possibilities for who might find connection and belonging in a lesbian past and a queer future. I explore an eclectic lesbian archive with an intergenerational Canadian focus that centers lesbian identity, community, and representation. My analysis supports my assertion that lesbian and queer inheritance flow multi-directionally, across and among people of varied generations and different social locations. I further posit that far from being anachronistic, lesbian, as a term for identity and culture, and as a political project, has ongoing productive potential, vitality, and agility that exceeds generational or linear understandings due to its fundamental grounding in self-definition. (Re)circulating lesbian and queer culture, therefore, functions as intergenerational wealth, community building, and cultural memory, bridging past pleasures, knowledge, and affective attachments with present and future possibilities for living.","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142267993","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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