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Pleasures of having (a) sex and the sex wars. 性的乐趣和性战争。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-06-23 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2692802

Jay Szpilka

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Latina/e lesbian archival praxis and memory work: a plática/roda de conversa with Malflora Collective. 拉丁/女同性恋档案实践和记忆工作：plática/与Malflora Collective的对话。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-06-05 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2682644

Melissa Aslo de la Torre, Guadalupe Ortega, Anahí Ponce, Mariana Meriqui Rodrigues, Alexandra Nichole Salazar, Meagan Solomon

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Not an Easy Beauty: Nature, Dicothomies and Lesbian Resistance in Jeanette Winterson's Work. 不容易的美：珍妮特·温特森作品中的自然、两分法和女同性恋反抗。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2660495

Luis León Prieto

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"Number and Identity in The Lesbian Body". “女同性恋身体中的数量和身份”。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-22 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2662784

Nora Fulton

{"title":"\"Number and Identity in The Lesbian Body\".","authors":"Nora Fulton","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2026.2662784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2026.2662784","url":null,"abstract":"This article attempts to intervene in the scholarly debate about Monique Wittig's status as an \"anti-identitarian\" thinker by highlighting the ways that mathematics appears throughout her oeuvre as a privileged site of pre-linguistic creativity, wherein a form identification seems to remain possible. Whereas Wittig pointed to language as the semiotic system that allows discourse to smuggle heterosexual and masculinist determination into all the identificatory acts of the speaking and writing subject, the counting and numbering subject seems for her to escape a similar critique. I investigate how this distinction structures her novel The Lesbian Body: I apply concepts drawn from mathematics, focusing especially on the concept of homology, to ask under what conditions we can understand Wittig's lesbian as having, or rather producing through her particular approach to enumeration, an identity. I claim that Wittig gives us an example of how mathematical thinking can bleed into literary thinking in the domain of sex, gender, and identity, without imagining that bleed as dangerous abstraction, a masculinist domination of the affective, or a cheap metaphor. As Wittig's importance as an author and philosopher undergoes reevaluation, my wager is that it would be useful to attend to her interventions in the way that the Western philosophical canon and the history of mathematics have been entwined.","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147785166","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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40th Anniversary of a Lesbian Association in Barcelona: Producing Lesbian and Feminist Genealogies through Collective Memory Work. 巴塞罗那女同性恋协会40周年纪念：通过集体记忆作品制作女同性恋和女权主义者家谱。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2655553

Julia Chrétien

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From the Male Gaze to the Female Gays: Universalizing Lesbian Experiences in Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For. 从男性凝视到女同性恋：艾莉森·贝克德尔的《女同性恋要当心》中女同性恋经历的普遍化。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-03-26 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2649964

Cassia Hayward-Fitch

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A sapphic love story as a window into sex work and rebellion at the turn of the Twentieth Century. 这是一个生动的爱情故事，是了解20世纪之交性工作和反叛的窗口。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-03-11 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2632330

Rikke Andreassen, Marie Lunau

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Sensing the Palace: Somatic Elicitation in Queer Oral History. 感知宫殿：酷儿口述历史中的躯体启发。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2612802

Alisha Stranges, Elspeth H Brown

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"A woman's party: Hidden narratives in turn of the 20th century sex work". “一个女人的派对：20世纪性工作的隐藏叙事”。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-08 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2628446

Keara Sebold

{"title":"\"A woman's party: Hidden narratives in turn of the 20th century sex work\".","authors":"Keara Sebold","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2026.2628446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2026.2628446","url":null,"abstract":"Historians have long argued that queer women in urban spaces received a level of legal and social tolerance or impunity toward their same sex relationships. This article argues that queer women were not arrested on charges of homosexuality or sodomy, but on charges of public indecency, \"crimes of lewdness,\" distribution of immoral literature, or prostitution. The use of sex work archives such as the Committee of Fourteen allows scholars to uncover more intersectional lesbian narratives by focusing on those who were most heavily impacted by vice and penal reform. Some historians have laid scholarly foundations by noting the queer subcultures within cooperative housing buildings in cities such as Chicago and New York. However, few historians have used the rich archive built around surveilling female sex workers to identify under-represented lesbian subcultures in this period. While white and upper-class queer women may have been able to live together without raising concerns or accusations of sexual misconduct, the existing social and judicial attitudes toward Black and working-class immigrant women's sexuality meant that their same-sex relationships made them a greater target than their white counterparts. While sex work provided means for queer women of any race to support themselves outside of a marriage to a man, Black queer women were disproportionately prosecuted. By understanding the history of early twentieth century sex work and lesbian communities as inextricable, scholars can uncover narratives of working class, Black queer women who have been systematically erased from the historical record.","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146143983","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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Messages to the future? Lesbian subversion of official categories in the 1921 UK census. 给未来的信息？女同性恋颠覆了1921年英国人口普查中的官方分类。

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Journal of Lesbian Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2026.2622097

Caroline Derry

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