Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
While out for a walk, Newman was approached by lesbian parents and asked to write a children's story about a family like theirs. [5] The parents explained that there were no books that they could show their daughter that portrayed the life of a family with lesbian parents. [ 5 ]
The section, "Twenty-one Love Poems," is a group of lesbian love poems that aim to present the power of love between two women and the need to change the cultural values that do not recognize this as a kind of love. The love poems comment on how women involved in lesbian relationships are alienated because their love is not recognized by the ...
Though lesbian literature had not yet evolved as a distinct genre in English in the 19th century, lesbian writers like the essayist and supernatural fiction writer Vernon Lee sometimes hinted at lesbian subtexts in their work [15] or, like Lee's lover Amy Levy, wrote love poems to women using the voice of a heterosexual man. [16]
Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668–1801. Emma Donoghue; Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. Lillian Faderman; Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions, ed. Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow, New York University Press 1990
At the same time, one of the key themes of lesbian feminism is the analysis of heterosexuality as an institution. [2] Lesbian feminist texts work to denaturalise heterosexuality and, based on this denaturalization, to explore heterosexuality's "roots" in institutions such as patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
A bill introduced in the Oklahoma Legislature on Monday would bar state agencies from celebrating LGBTQ Pride Month or displaying rainbow Pride flags on state property at anytime of year.
Charity Bryant (May 22, 1777 [1] – October 6, 1851 [2]) was an American business owner and writer.She was a diarist and wrote acrostic poetry. [3] Because there is extensive documentation for the shared lives of Bryant and her partner Sylvia Drake, their diaries, letters and business papers have become an important part of the archive in documenting the history of same-sex couples.