Lesbian & Bisexual Identities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781566395090)

This book examines the stories of lesbian and bisexual women in a Northeast community who share who they are, how they have come to see themselves as lesbian or bisexual, and what those identities mean to them. Drawing on social constructionist approaches to identity, Kristin G. Esterberg argues that identities are multiple and contingent. Created within the context of specific communities and within specific relationships, lesbian and bisexual identities are ways of sorting through experiences of desires and attractions, relationships and politics. Their meanings change over time as women grow older and have more varied experiences, as the communities and sociopolitical worlds in which they live change, and as their life circumstances alter.

Author: Kristin Esterberg
ISBN-10: 1566395097
ISBN-13: 9781566395090
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/04/1997
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.42h x 5.84w x 0.84d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/1997 pg. 128