The social construction of lesbianism / Celia Kitzinger.
The old model of lesbianism as a pathological affliction has largely given way to a liberal social scientific one which presents it as an alternative lifestyle, a way of loving, a sexual preference, or a source of personal fulfilment. This book argues that the shift from "pathological" to...
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London ; Newbury Park, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
1987.
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| Series: | Inquiries in social construction series.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Rhetoric in research on lesbianism and male homosexuality
- 2. Social scientific accounts
- 3. Eliciting and assessing lesbian accounts
- 4. Lesbian identities
- 5. Lesbian politics
- 6. The social construction of prejudice
- 7. The future for research on lesbianism.