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Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles

While diverse in medium and subject matter, this collection contextualizes women’s liberation highlighting issues of class, race, sexuality and imperialism. The materials in this collection focus on lived experience and practical knowledge instead of theory. Accordingly, this collection predominantly features perspectives of women often excluded from or overshadowed in popular feminist discourse, including nonwhite, lesbian/queer, working-class, and the Third World. Topics of focus include violence against women and self-defense, representation of women in the media, radical feminist perspectives, historical feminist perspectives and reproductive rights.  Formats include periodicals, monographs, articles and reports. Although the materials examine a wide range of topics and contain a diverse set of perspectives, many of the materials were produced in the Bay Area and the vast majority of the materials come from the United States. Although many of the contents were published 30+ years ago, they still maintain contemporary relevance.

Documents

BLU Magazine BLU Magazine
Publisher: BLU MagazineYear: 2001Volume Number: Vol. 3-12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
2nd annual womens issue: Women in Community; Til We Free; Hip Hop Mamas; Taking Control: African Women Publishers; Influences; What Feeds You: Asian Women Activists; Linda Evans; Bahamadia; Indigo Girls; Mystic; Chumbawamba; Zap Mama; Busi Mhlongo; Flo Brown; Majestic; more.
Green Mountain Quarterly Green Mountain Quarterly
Publisher: Green Mountain QuarterlyYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 2 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Inside this Issue: The Woman Question by Eleanor Marx; Feminism, Working Women, and Social Democracy by Henriette Roland-Holst; Reviewing Feminist Revolution Today by Tiresias; The Epic Painter of Womens Emergence by Janet Sawyer; Fragment of a Manhattan Childhood by Anne Forer; Poetry by Virginia Scott"
Crossroads: Contemporary Political Analysis & Left Dialogue Crossroads: Contemporary Political Analysis & Left Dialogue
Publisher: CrossroadsYear: 1993Volume Number: No. 31 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
A Salute to Latinas in the Arts; Inside this Issue: "For an Art of Resistance"; Feminist Visions; "We're Still Invisible"; Mexican Themes in Dance, Film, Teatro; Artist Proocateur; Turning It Around; Cry from the Borderlands; Monica Palacios: "Latin Lezbo Comic".
Feminism and its Discontents Feminism and its Discontents
Publisher: San Francisco Examiner Image MagazineDate: 9/27/1992Volume Number: 27-SepFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Susan Faludi, Camille Paglia and Naomi Wolf on Men, Women, Sex, Family Values
Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine
Publisher: Trouble and Strife CollectiveYear: 1989Volume Number: No. 16 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Trouble and Strife is cockney rhyming slang for wife. We chose this name because it acknowledges the reality of conflict in relations between women and men. As radical feminists, our politics come directly from this tension between mens power and womens resistance." ; Inside this Issue: International campaigns against sex tourism; the professionalisation of child sexual abuse; on feminists and money; violence between and by women; more.
Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal
Publisher: Off Our Backs CollectiveYear: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 20-2 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Celebrating 20 Years with OOB"
Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal
Publisher: Off Our Backs CollectiveYear: 1984Volume Number: Vol. 14-11 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Motherhood?"; Also inside this issue: Judy Clark - Jailed Revolutionary; Barbara Wilson - Writer; British Black Feminists; Adoption
Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal Off Our Backs: A Women's Newsjournal
Publisher: Off Our Backs CollectiveYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 19-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
"Domestic Tyranny; Waverly Place; Robin Morgan"
Ms. Magazine: The World of women Ms. Magazine: The World of women
Publisher: Ms. Magazine- Lang Communications Inc.Year: 1990Volume Number: July-AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Premier Issue; Inside this Issue: Sex, Lies & Advertising (Gloria Steinem); Lesley Gore on k.d. lang-And Vice Versa; Women of Eastern Europe; Alice Walker's Choice; more.
No More Fun and Games: A Journal of Female Liberation No More Fun and Games: A Journal of Female Liberation
Year: 1969Volume Number: Issue 3 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
The Dialectics of Sexism