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{"title":"Histories of resistance: Joan Nestle and Irena Klepfisz as keepers of memory","authors":"K. Russell","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2202087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2023.2202087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44674299","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}

{"title":"Linda Garber’s novel approaches to Lesbian history: the power of re-creating lesbian stories","authors":"Sandra BaenaSandra Baena VelázquezVelázquez","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2177389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2023.2177389","url":null,"abstract":"What purposes does lesbian historical fiction serve? What does the corpus of lesbian historical fiction illustrate? These are some of the questions that scholar Linda Garber answers in her latest volume Novel Approaches to Lesbian History (Springer Nature, 2021). Committed to both lesbian history and lesbian literary representation, Garber navigates lesbian historical novels as a genre that has served to depict a past that has systematically been denied. This volume examines a corpus of over 200 lesbian historical novels whose stories take place before 1930. Through a meticulous analysis of this corpus, the author invites her readers to explore the complexities of lesbian historical novels whose protagonists encompass “a wide-ranging cast of marauding pirates, Civil War scouts, Western bandits, homesteading pioneers, suffragists, schoolteachers, wealthy ladies, working class servants, prostitutes, and shopkeepers” (Garber 3). Garber’s academic work has extensively focused on lesbian matters. She is the author of important volumes in the field of Lesbian Studies such as Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory (Columbia UP, 2001) and Lesbian Sources: A Bibliography of Periodical Articles, 1970-1990 (Routledge, 1993). She is also the editor of Tilting the Tower: Lesbians/Teaching/Queer Subjects (Routledge, 1994), an academic volume that addresses lesbian/gay studies in education from a variety of political and pedagogical perspectives. In addition, she has published on the fields of lesbian and queer studies as they have developed in academia since the 1990s. Her articles, including “Where in the world are the lesbians?” (2005) and \"Weaving a wide net: The benefits of integrating campus projects to combat homophobia” (2002), signify important contributions to the field of lesbian/gay studies. The titles of these books and articles demonstrate Garber’s commitment to the reclamation and dignification of lesbian history. Since the 1990s, the genre of lesbian historical fiction has garnered attention from academic scholars in the field of lesbian studies. Bonnie Zimmerman’s The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction, 1969-1989, published in 1990, provided an early account of lesbian literary fiction; five years later, Sarah Waters’ 1995 doctoral thesis “Wolfskins and Togas: Lesbian and Gay Historical Fictions, 1870 to the Present” researched the role of historical references in lesbian/gay fiction in British Literature since the late nineteenth century. These two examples demonstrate academic interest in lesbian historical fiction in the field of Lesbian Studies. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History delves into the corpus of historical novels written by and for lesbians. Through a critical reading of the corpus, Garber proves the necessity of a movement that reclaims a past of their own. As Garber herself points out in her notes in chapter 1, the majority of works take place before 1930; this is indeed a revolutionary st","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135907018","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}

{"title":"Not like any other fiction","authors":"Bonnilee Kaufman","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2174944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2023.2174944","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43271734","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}

{"title":"The negative effects of internalized homonegativity on sexual satisfaction: dyadic effects and gender-based differences in Chile.","authors":"Joaquín Bahamondes,&nbsp;Jaime Barrientos,&nbsp;Mónica Guzmán-González,&nbsp;Lusmenia Garrido-Rojas,&nbsp;Fabiola Gómez,&nbsp;Ricardo Espinoza-Tapia","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2022.2122197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2022.2122197","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Heterosexism is not only expressed through sexual prejudice as an external stressor, but also as an internalized rejection toward one's own (and others') sexually diverse identity. That is, lesbian women and gay men themselves internalize negative societal attitudes toward their sexual orientation and identity-a phenomenon called internalized homonegativity. A wealth of research shows that internalized homonegativity negatively affects the health and social adjustment of gay and lesbian people. However, the literature has documented this trend from an individual (over a dyadic) perspective, and largely among gay (over lesbian) samples. To address this oversight, we analyzed data from 210 gay and lesbian couples in Chile to examine both actor and partner effects of internalized homonegativity on their sexual satisfaction. Results from moderation analyses from an actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) approach show that partners' internalized homonegativity negatively affects actor sexual satisfaction, a pattern significantly moderated by gender; that is, only observed among lesbian couples. Our results further demonstrated that these effects hold above and beyond the actor and partner effects of age and relationship satisfaction, as well as relationship length. These results are consistent with the broader literature, which discusses the specific features of internalized homonegativity in lesbian women, characterized-among other aspects-by restrictive social demands over their sexuality. Accordingly, our findings highlight the deleterious relational consequences of internalized homonegativity and offer a relevant empirical contribution to the understanding of specific minority stress dynamics among lesbian women.</p>","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10588975","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}

{"title":"Afterword: Scanning the Chicana lesbian body politic: knowledge, practice, identity.","authors":"Liliana C Gonzalez, Stacy I Macias","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2250700","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2250700","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Chicana Lesbians The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About</i> ushered in the fulfillment of editor Carla Trujillo's vision for an anthology that would recognize and demystify the existence of Chicana lesbians. Our deep and critical affection for Trujillo's anthology prompts us to acknowledge the expansive potentiality of <i>Chicana Lesbians</i> yet also recognize the historical specificity of its relevance and legibility. While our deep affection urges us to reflect on the myriad ways to love on an object like <i>Chicana Lesbians</i> including how this text has been read, engaged, and critiqued, we also acknowledge-just as Trujillo opined in the anthology's introduction-that we, too, want and need more. A reappraisal of this text requires that we recognize how scholars, activists, and artists may unwittingly be relying on thematic approaches and methods of construction popularized in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Rather than perceive these inclinations on purely nostalgic, unimaginative, or regressive terms, we instead understand these tendencies as callings- to return to earlier submerged moments and techniques. Such phenomena surface <i>via</i> a Covid-19 pandemic temporality, slowing time and thus shaping how to reevaluate the palimpsestic outlines of Chicana lesbian cultural and scholarly production. Guided by these traces, we are arguing that Trujillo's anthology formed what would become the Chicana lesbian body politic forged at the crossroads of Chicanismo, women of color feminism, lesbian identity politics, working-class consciousness, and transnational solidarity sensibilities. <i>Chicana Lesbians</i> provided some early queerly racialized sexual grammars that continue to circulate in the present evidenced through the authors' uses and references in both volumes of this special issue.</p>","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41183846","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}

{"title":"<i>On Her Own Terms:</i> Ana Castillo Discusses Sexuality, Identity, and Life-Then and Now.","authors":"Liliana C Gonzalez,&nbsp;Stacy I Macias","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2250670","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2250670","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ana Castillo is a prolific and celebrated author of novels, poetry, short stories, and essays on gender and sexuality, feminism, and Chicanx experiences. Born and raised in Chicago, Castillo's works include <i>The Mixquiahuala Letters</i> (1986), <i>So Far from God</i> (1993<i>)</i>, <i>Massacre of the Dreamers, Loverboys</i> (1996), and <i>black dove: mamá, mi'jo, and me</i> (2016) among others. Castillo is the recipient of several awards including the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the International Latino Book Award, and the Lambda Award. In this interview, Liliana C. Gonzalez and Stacy I. Macias discuss Castillo's reflections on the political and cultural moment in which <i>Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About</i> was published. Macias and Gonzalez also explore Castillo's encounters with the problematics of identity politics and consider Castillo's evolution as an activist and creative writer.</p>","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41143255","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}

{"title":"La Ofrenda Lesbiana: Elementos de mi Corazón.","authors":"Jodi Aguilar","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2247291","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10894160.2023.2247291","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The following contribution celebrates, honors, and reflects on the bodies of work that create spaces of cariño in Carla Trujillo's 1991 anthology, <i>Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About</i>. This piece is two-fold:it begins with an open letter, or analytic response to the ways authors in the anthology such as Terri de la Peña, E.D.Hernandez and Cherríe Moraga have charted and inspired forbidden archives of Chicana lesbian knowledge(s) and cariño molded by their poesía, letra y arte. In this letter, I embed elements of earth <i>tierra, aire, fuego, y agua</i> that make up the foundation of the accompanying art piece. While these pieces exist in separate physical form, their spirits are directly in conversation, una con la otra. I invite readers to indulge in this writing and complimentary artwork alongside the nearest element of earth accessible to you as a reminder that as long as earth is present our capacity to love is <i>eternal.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10426925","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}

{"title":"Lesbian longings and the question of a queer repertoire in <i>The \"Other\" Love Story</i>.","authors":"Shailendra Kumar Singh","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2022.2119673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2022.2119673","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, there has been an emerging critical discourse in South Asia that examines the changing contours of representational politics that could, in turn, be strategically mobilized to introduce an alternative idiom of same-sex love within a standard template of heterosexual storytelling. This has been complemented by an evaluation of alternative modes of sexual politics that need not necessarily conform to Western labels or paradigms of queer identities. Taking its cue from such discursive readings, this article demonstrates how Roopa Rao's web series, <i>The \"Other\" Love Story</i> (2016), revisits some of the dominant tropes, practices, and narrative conventions of the Hindi films, released in the 1990s, to create a counter-archive for the lesbian subject who, for the most part, was conspicuous by her very absence in the popular figurations of that period in South Asia. There is a perceptible strand of lingering nostalgia and artistic homage that undergirds such an experimental project that nevertheless also becomes a disruptive site for articulating an oppositional esthetics of romance. The subtlety and restraint of such a nuanced portrayal of dissident desires and queer intimacies thus not only resist the easy appropriations that women in the subcontinent are routinely subjected to (as veritable repositories of tradition and national identity) but also retrospectively reclaim a voice for an otherwise historically silenced discourse of sexuality for the masses.</p>","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9286609","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}

{"title":"\"When a topic looks good on my c.v., I move on\": Esther Rothblum's career in groundbreaking research.","authors":"Kristen Pinchbeck,&nbsp;Remus Mitchell,&nbsp;Ella Ben Hagai","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2022.2150390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2022.2150390","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For a special issue on International Perspectives on Lesbian Psychology, we interviewed Esther Rothblum, the editor-in-chief of the <i>Journal of Lesbian Studies</i> since its establishment in 1995. In this interview, Rothblum describes her socialization into feminism at Smith College, the dominant role men played in psychology in the 1970s, and how she found herself studying the psychology of women. Rothblum describes some of her findings from rigorous studies on lesbians and their children, transgender people, and asexuality. Reflecting on her experience editing three different journals (<i>Women & Therapy, Journal of Lesbian Studies</i>, and <i>Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society</i>), she explains the skills important for young scholars working on cutting-edge research. This included developing a thick skin, learning to expect changes in identity labels and psychological theories, and finally, the importance of methodologies in the training of budding psychologists.</p>","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10587870","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}

{"title":"Mental health disparities between German lesbian and bisexual women and a population-based sample.","authors":"Frank A Sattler,&nbsp;Gabriele H Franke,&nbsp;Johanna Zeyen,&nbsp;Melanie Jagla-Franke","doi":"10.1080/10894160.2022.2087343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10894160.2022.2087343","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lesbians are at greater risk of mental health problems than heterosexual women, and bisexual individuals are even more likely to report mental health problems. No study has yet tested whether there are any mental health differences between German lesbians, bisexual women, and female controls. We tested for mental health differences between matched groups of 161 lesbian and bisexual women and 161 women in the general population, as well as between matched groups of 79 lesbians and 79 bisexual women. Lesbian and bisexual women reported more mental health problems than population-based women. In contrast, bisexual women did not differ in mental health from lesbians. Therefore, German lesbian and bisexual women constitute a risk group for mental health problems. To improve lesbian and bisexual women's mental health, attempts should be made to lower the frequency of minority stressors, and best-practice mental health interventions made available.</p>","PeriodicalId":46044,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lesbian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10588932","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}