Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage

JoAnne Myers

Bloomsbury Academic, Jul 14, 2003 - History - 360 pages

The Lesbian Liberation Movement (LLM) is both a movement that encompasses liberating a sexual practice from stigmatization, and a political movement challenging the dual oppression of women by the patriarchy's assumption of male supremacy and heterosexuality. Over the years, much has been written on homosexuality, and the Gay Liberation Movement (GLM), yet much of the focus has been on male homosexuals, especially male homosexual activity and the politics that that activity raises.

The Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage is a comprehensive overview and resource guide for one of the most invisible social political movements: the Lesbian Liberation Movement. This book helps to make the still-active movement visible-the history, successes, setbacks, controversies, and issues. This book is a good secondary resource for those studying this social political movement, containing a chronology, contextual overview, dictionary entries that cover persons, laws, terminology, issues, and countries, and an extensive bibliography of primary resources and current work.

A reference work, this book should be in all libraries and used by researchers studying the Lesbian Liberation Movement.

Contents

• Acknowledgments: ix
• Acronyms: xvii
• Chronology: xxiii
• Introduction: 1
• THE DICTIONARY: 41
• Bibliography: 155
• Introduction: 252
• History and Politics: 272
• Lesbian Studies: 282

About the author

JoAnne Myers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is also co-director of the Women's Studies program and coordinator of the annual Women and Society Conference. An out lesbian, feminist, and activist, she teaches and has written about feminist political theory, public policy and women, and environmental policy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage; Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
• Author: JoAnne Myers
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2003
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: May 22, 2008
• ISBN: 0810845067, 9780810845060
• Length: 360 pages
• Subjects: History / Reference; Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies