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Sexual fluidity : understanding women's love and desire
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Sexual fluidity : understanding women's love and desire

Author: Lisa M Diamond
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Sexual fluidity offers moving first-person accounts of women falling in and out of love with men or women at different times in their lives. For some, gender becomes irrelevant: "I fall in love with the person, not the gender." they say." From the bookjacket.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lisa M Diamond
ISBN: 9780674026247 0674026241 9780674032262 0674032268
OCLC Number: 154309186
Description: 333 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Will the real lesbians please stand up? --
Gender differences in same-sex sexuality --
Sexual fluidity in action --
Nonexclusive attractions and behaviors --
Change in sexual attractions --
Attractions to "the person, not the gender" --
How does fluidity work? --
Implications of female sexual fluidity.
Responsibility: Lisa M. Diamond.
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Offers a radical understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. This book argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid,  Read more...

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[Diamond] did something unique, following 100 female subjects with same-sex attractions for 10 years...Her book is worth reading.--Sheela Lambert"examiner.com" (08/05/2009)

 
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