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The Persistent Desire

  • Joan Nestle

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Surveys a decade of the attempt to reconstruct and understand the meaning and value of butch-femme relations for the contemporary lesbian, drawing on oral history, fiction, poetry, and fantasy

Genres

  • Lesbians' writings, American
  • Sexual behavior
  • Lesbians
  • Literary collections
  • Poetry
  • Sexuality
  • Personal narratives
  • Butch and femme (Lesbianism)
  • Identity
  • LGBTQ essays
  • LGBTQ short stories
  • LGBTQ poetry
  • Lambda Literary Awards
  • Lambda Literary Award Winner
  • Sex role
  • Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
  • Lesbians' writings
  • Butch and femme (Lesbian culture)
  • LGBTQ anthropology
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About the author

  • Joan Nestle

    born 12 May 1940

    4.67

    6 ratings · 18 works

Editions

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    1st ed.

    Alyson Publications

    1992

  • Edition cover

    1st ed edition

    Alyson Publications

    June 1992