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    (Ellis' categorization of "lesbianism" as a medical problem is now discredited). Krafft-Ebing, who considered lesbianism a neurological disease, and...
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  • separatism. Political lesbianism asserts that sexual orientation is a political and feminist choice, and advocates lesbianism as a positive alternative...
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    Lesbian erotica deals with depictions in the visual arts of lesbianism, which is the expression of female-on-female sexuality. Lesbianism has been a theme...
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  • respite from sexuality." Echols considered separatism as a lesbian strategy to untie lesbianism from sex so heterosexual women in the feminist movement felt...
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    Lesbianism is the sexual and romantic desire between women. There are historically fewer mentions of lesbianism than male homosexuality, due to many historical...
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    "political lesbianism," which reduces lesbianism as a political choice to reject men and the penises, overlooks the deeply personal nature of lesbianism as an...
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  • stemmed off of the larger radical lesbianism movement. In addition to being associated with social movements, radical lesbianism also offers its own ideology...
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    a lesbian vampire. Vampyros Lesbos was referenced by Quentin Tarantino in his 1997 movie Jackie Brown. A more specialized form of vampire lesbianism involves...
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    forms of lesbianism such as 'femme' (e.g. wears dresses/skirts or form-fitting jeans, low cut tops, makeup, jewelry), or 'lipstick lesbian' [...], are...
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    Archived from the original on June 1, 2009. Retrieved November 19, 2011. "Lesbianism: Women's Sexual Expression Together". hite-research.com. Archived from...
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    history of lesbianism in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, the members of same-sex female couples discussed here are not known to be lesbian (rather...
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    as a narrative of lesbianism, even though it attempts to paint itself as a narrative of sisterly love. Scholars have also seen lesbian potential in characters...
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  • Various lesbian flags have been used to symbolise the lesbian community. Since 1999, many designs have been proposed and used. Although personal preferences...
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  • Look up lesbian or Lesbian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. Lesbian may also refer to: An inhabitant of Lesbos...
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    butch women). The depictions of lesbianism in prison, the military, and boarding schools was a well-used motif. Lesbianism was often linked to other topics...
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  • Femme (redirect from Femme lesbianism)
    "Political Lesbianism". ReviseSociology. 2020-06-12. Retrieved 2023-04-08. Stone, Sharon Dale (1996). "Bisexual Women and the "Threat" to Lesbian Space: Or...
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  • Lesbian bed death is the concept that lesbian couples in committed relationships have less sex than any other type of couple the longer the relationship...
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    Corrective rape Compulsory heterosexuality Heterosexism History of lesbianism Lesbianism in erotica Sapphobia Societal attitudes toward homosexuality Violence...
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    Dyke (slang) (redirect from Dyke (lesbian))
    Dyke is a slang term, used as a noun meaning lesbian. It originated as a homophobic slur for masculine, butch, or androgynous girls or women. Pejorative...
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    Dorothy Allison (category American lesbian writers)
    struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison won a number of awards for her writing...
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  • Radical lesbians are distinguished from other radical feminists through their ideological roots in political lesbianism. Radical lesbians see lesbianism as...
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  • woman, and its impact on sexual orientation and therefore lesbianism." She commented, "Is lesbianism a sexual attraction only to female bodies or is it attraction...
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    Butch is a lesbian who exhibits a masculine identity or gender presentation. Since the lesbian subculture of 1940s America, "butch" has been present as...
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    described butches as "the recognizable public form of lesbianism" and an outlaw figure within lesbian culture. In the novel Stone Butch Blues, author Leslie...
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  • making lesbianism visible in South American popular culture. The music video for The Head and the Heart's "Another Story" portrays a lesbian couple....
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    Trans woman (redirect from Trans lesbian)
    American trans women showed 31% of them identifying as bisexual, 29% as "gay/lesbian/same-gender", 23% as heterosexual, 7% as asexual, as well as 7% identifying...
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    whether tomboyism leads to lesbianism. Throughout history, there has been a perceived correlation between tomboyishness and lesbianism. For instance, Hollywood...
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  • an individual choice, when in fact, the principles of radical lesbianism see lesbianism as necessary and consider its existence as necessarily outside...
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    The U-Haul lesbian or U-Haul syndrome is a stereotype of lesbian relationships referring to the idea that lesbians tend to move in together after a short...
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  • violence within lesbian relationships is the pattern of violent and coercive behavior in a female same-sex relationship wherein a lesbian or other non-heterosexual...
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