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The Resource Lesbian lifestyles : women's work and the politics of sexuality, Gillian A. Dunne

Lesbian lifestyles : women's work and the politics of sexuality, Gillian A. Dunne

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Summary
Lesbian Lifestyles graphically illustrates the importance of taking sexuality into account in order to deepen our understanding of the constraining and liberating influences on women's domestic and working lives. Charting the lives of 60 women from childhood, through school, to their paid work and home lives as adults, the book explores their experiences of gendering in childhood and their changing feelings about society's prevalent culture of 'romantic heterosexuality'. In particular, it documents the impact of 'coming out' on their adult lives - most importantly on their approach to intimate relationships and paid work. Casting new light on how sexuality is socially constructed, the book argues that the capacity to evaluate the taken-for-grantedness of heterosexuality is linked with empowerment and it offers a vision of what working life and domestic arrangements can look like when gender difference as a structuring principle is absent
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
x, 258 pages
Contents
  • 1. Researching 'non-heterosexual' women: theoretical and methodological issues
  • 2. Negotiating femininities: childhood worlds
  • 3. Education, heterosexual expectations and avenues of escape
  • 4. Gender, sexuality and employment opportunity
  • 5. Lesbians at work: why can't a woman be more like a man?
  • 6. Lesbians at home: why can't a man be more like a woman?
  • 7. Concluding discussion
Isbn
9780802041043
Instance
Label
Lesbian lifestyles : women's work and the politics of sexuality
Title
Lesbian lifestyles
Title remainder
women's work and the politics of sexuality
Statement of responsibility
Gillian A. Dunne
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Lesbian Lifestyles graphically illustrates the importance of taking sexuality into account in order to deepen our understanding of the constraining and liberating influences on women's domestic and working lives. Charting the lives of 60 women from childhood, through school, to their paid work and home lives as adults, the book explores their experiences of gendering in childhood and their changing feelings about society's prevalent culture of 'romantic heterosexuality'. In particular, it documents the impact of 'coming out' on their adult lives - most importantly on their approach to intimate relationships and paid work. Casting new light on how sexuality is socially constructed, the book argues that the capacity to evaluate the taken-for-grantedness of heterosexuality is linked with empowerment and it offers a vision of what working life and domestic arrangements can look like when gender difference as a structuring principle is absent
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Dunne, Gillian A
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HQ75.5
LC item number
.D85 1997
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Lesbianism
  • Lesbians
  • Sexual division of labor
  • Sex role
  • Lesbians
  • Lesbianisme
  • Division sexuelle du travail
  • Partage des tâches domestiques
  • Rôle selon le sexe
  • Lesbiennes
  • Lesbiennes
  • Lesbianism
  • Lesbians
  • Lesbians
  • Sex role
  • Sexual division of labor
Label
Lesbian lifestyles : women's work and the politics of sexuality, Gillian A. Dunne
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Researching 'non-heterosexual' women: theoretical and methodological issues -- 2. Negotiating femininities: childhood worlds -- 3. Education, heterosexual expectations and avenues of escape -- 4. Gender, sexuality and employment opportunity -- 5. Lesbians at work: why can't a woman be more like a man? -- 6. Lesbians at home: why can't a man be more like a woman? -- 7. Concluding discussion
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
x, 258 pages
Isbn
9780802041043
Isbn Type
(bound)
Lccn
97130146
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)35939406
  • (OCoLC)ocm35939406
Label
Lesbian lifestyles : women's work and the politics of sexuality, Gillian A. Dunne
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Researching 'non-heterosexual' women: theoretical and methodological issues -- 2. Negotiating femininities: childhood worlds -- 3. Education, heterosexual expectations and avenues of escape -- 4. Gender, sexuality and employment opportunity -- 5. Lesbians at work: why can't a woman be more like a man? -- 6. Lesbians at home: why can't a man be more like a woman? -- 7. Concluding discussion
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
x, 258 pages
Isbn
9780802041043
Isbn Type
(bound)
Lccn
97130146
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)35939406
  • (OCoLC)ocm35939406

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