Cusick and Her Lesbian Relationship with Music In the essay “On a Lesbian Relationship with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight” by Suzanne G. Cusick‚ she brings up an interesting topic about the connection between her being a lesbian and her being a musician‚ a musicologist‚ if there exists any. I’m especially interested in the “power system” and the link between musicality and lesbianism she mentions in this article. Here‚ I’ll try to analysis them in detail and relate them with other
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Literature Review on Gays and Lesbians in the Workplace By T. Kings Introduction Diversity has been an evolving concept. The term is both specific‚ focused on an individual‚ and contextual‚ defined through societal constructs (Moore‚ 1999). Many current writers define diversity as any significant difference that distinguishes one individual from another‚ a description that encompasses a broad range of overt and hidden qualities. Generally‚ researchers organize diversity characteristics into four
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Critical Reading Response: Does A Lesbian Need a Vagina Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle? Or‚ Would the “Real” Lesbian Please Stand Up! In society a person ’s appearance and label help us categorize and give us a general understanding of who that person is. Of course there are stereotypes that play a part in all of this. However‚ it is almost impossible to escape seeing as how people are identified by others is usually based on stereotypes. This week ’s reading ties in with this exactly. A point
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Living in the shadows: lesbians in India By Sweta Madhuri Kannan on August 18‚ 2011 Introduction: lesbians in Indian society Lesbians in India are conspicuous by their lack of visibility in mainstream society. If one were to accept the Indian government’s stance concerning sexual minorities‚ lesbians would not exist[1]. Sadly‚ this is an attitude that resonates with large parts of Indian society even today. Lesbian invisibility has become a deep-seated feature of society and has had a deterring
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underground market allowed for a more open depiction of sexuality and in the 70’s and 80’s openly lesbian and bisexual artists told their stories in comic book form‚ such as Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For and graphic novel Fun Home. Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist who was born in Lock Haven‚ Pennsylvania. She interested in the underground comics and she began to write in this field. She is lesbian feminist artist and her works consist of the feminism and lesbianism movement. Her work‚
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This article talks about the way in which and the extent to which lesbians conduct their relationships in an egalitarian manner battling power imbalances and other inequalities that come their way. The author has conducted a study on lesbian relationships where interviews were conducted and information was gathered on the positive and negative aspects of their experiences. Lesbian women focus on equality be it economic power‚ the domestic sphere‚ emotional labour and career opportunities. The article
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Elizabeth. "The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening."Tulsa Studies in Women ’s Literature 15.2 (1996): 289-307. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Feb. 2013. Seidel‚ Kathryn. "Art Is an Unnatural Act: Mademoiselle Reisz in ’The Awakening ’" The Mississippi Quarterly 46.2 (1993): 1-3. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Feb. 2013. Zimmerman‚ Bonnie. "Lesbians Like This and That: Some Notes on Lesbian Criticism for the Nineties." Ed. Sally Munt. New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and
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of many‚ also lesbians. “[Fried Green Tomatoes] represents around the issue of lesbianism‚ depicting a strong and intense friendship between two white women (the tomboy Idgie Threadgoode and the fern Ruth Jamison)‚ but never committing itself one way or another” (Pelligrini 7). There have not been many stories written about homosexuality in the first half of the twentieth century. That is why Fannie Flagg does not just come out and say that Idgie and Ruth are lesbians. In turn‚ the
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Interpreting Virginia Woolf ’s Homosexual Subtext in Mrs. Dalloway How does Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway intentionally show Woolf ’s lesbian-feminist critique of the institution of marriage and acknowledge the competing discourses of lesbianism and male homosexuality? Eileen Barrett ’s "Unmasking Lesbian Passion: The Inverted World of Mrs. Dalloway" answers the question showing that Woolf used her text to inform the reader of her views. The probable thesis of the article is that Virginia Woolf
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Mattachine’s original founders resigned their posts quietly‚ the divide was contentious‚ and emblematic of debates that have plagued gay and lesbian advocacy groups almost since the moment of their inception (and‚ indeed‚ Del Martin‚ a founder of the Daughters of Bilitis‚ would later break from the more integrationist ideology of the organization to become an advocate of lesbian separatism.) Moreover‚ debates of this nature are still quite common today. For instance‚ many queer activists have criticized the
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