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1 online resource (255 pages) |
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Lesbian Ex-Lover Relationships: Under-Estimated, Under-Theorized and Under-Valued? / Jacqueline S. Weinstock 1 -- "The Changer and the Changed": Ex-Lovers as Contexts for Development -- To All the Girls I Left Before / Alison Bechdel 11 -- Tenth Anniversary / Jill Stranger 13 -- Coming Out of My Closet / Barbara Brown 21 -- In My Dream: My Ex-Lovers' Unconventional Convention / Pat Pomerleau Chavez 25 -- These Most Difficult Tasks / Karen Heise 31 -- Passion / Marilyn Lee 33 -- Moving Costs: Challenges of (Re)defining Our Relationships and Dealing with Unfinished Business -- Still the One / Susan McCully 37 -- Loading Up the U-Haul: Traveling the Spaces Between Friends and Lovers / Tammie M. Kennedy 45 -- Daring to Take the Risk / Myra Betschild, Adrienne Fortanier 57 -- Family Affairs / L.J. "Tess" Tessier 73 -- Highly Favored Ex / Gina Perille 75 -- For Emily, Many Years Too Late/Years Later, in Another City, I Still Think of Her / Renny Christopher 79 -- Too much Tsoras? The High Costs of Maintaining Ties -- Truth, Dreams and the Li(v)es Between / Marilyn Lee 85 -- Temporary Temptation / Cecilia Stanton 87 -- Lost Love / Renny Christopher 89 -- Neurotic Love Letters / tatiana de la tierra 93 -- Goodbye Note to My Lover / Michelle Gibson 97 -- Leaving Liza / Jane Futcher 99 -- Lesbian Ex-Lovers by the Numbers: A Reflective but Not Contemplative Love Poem of Sorts / Dr. Dyke 111 -- Not Lovers But not "Just Friends": Reconstructing Families, Friendships, and Communities -- Personal Stories -- I'm Not Lisa / Kate Brown 117 -- The House on Transcript Avenue / Bernadette Barton 129 -- The Politics of Potlucks / Barbara Esrig 135 -- Family Doggerel / Becky Thacker 141 -- The Visit / Marilyn Lee 145 -- Irritating and Constricting/Elating and Elastic-Being "Ex" as a Lesbian / Fe Day 149 -- Theoretical Reflections -- Consummated Friends and Ex-Wives: Two Types of Lesbian Ex-Lovers / Tabitha Eden 159 -- When Three's a Crowd: Ex-Lovers and Lesbian Families in 2 Girls in Love / Kelly McWilliam 165 -- Making the Transition: Understanding the Longevity of Lesbian Relationships / Susan B. Fitzgerald 177 -- Lesbian FLEX-ibility: Friend and/or Family Connections Among Lesbian Ex-Lovers / Jacqueline S. Weinstock 193 -- The Migration of the Mythic Lesbian / Marny Hall 241 |
| Summary |
"This inside look into the hearts and minds of women renegotiating their relationships with each other offers personal insight into the diverse possibilities and pitfalls of ex-lover relationships. Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships contains personal stories, fictional accounts, poetry, and theoretical analyses of the frequency and significance of ex-lovers at different stages in a relationship."--Jacket |
| Notes |
"Lesbian ex-lovers: the really long-term relationships has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Lesbian Studies, Volume 8, Numbers 3/4, 2003." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Lesbian couples -- United States -- Case studies
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Separation (Psychology)
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Interpersonal relations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Interpersonal relations
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Lesbian couples
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Separation (Psychology)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Weinstock, Jacqueline S., 1961-
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Rothblum, Esther D.
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| ISBN |
9781317953586 |
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1317953584 |
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