Journal of Lesbian Studies

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Mary Long, Editorial Assistant

I am editor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies and each year appoint a graduate student to serve as editorial assistant.

The Journal of Lesbian Studies focuses on the unique interests, concerns and needs of lesbians. The Journal is a forum for lesbian scholarship, including theory, research, interviews, fiction and poetry, art, book reviews, and letters to the editor. Past and upcoming issues focus on the following themes:

Volume 1:
Classics in lesbian studies

Volume 2:
Lesbian health and health care
Acts of passion: Sexuality, gender and performance
Lesbian perspectives on work and family

Volume 3:
The lesbian polyamory reader
Lesbian sex scandals: Sexual practices, identities, and politics
Lesbians, levis, and lipstick

Volume 4:
From nowhere to everywhere: Lesbian geographies
Romancing the margin: Lesbian writing in the 1990s
Lesbian embodied self-writing: The telling of experience

Volume 5:
Lesbian issues in Aoteraroa/New Zealand
Everyday mutinies: Funding lesbian activism

Volume 6:
Lesbian love and relationships
The way we want to go: New considerations of femme and butch
Addressing homophobia and heterosexism on college campuses

Volume 7:
Mental health issues for sexual minority women
Lesbian rites: Signs, symbols and acts of love
Latina lesbian writers and artists
Trauma, stress and resilience among sexual minority women

Volume 8:
Lesbians and psychoanalysis
Lesbian ex-lovers: The really long-term relationships

Volume 9:
Lesbian communities: Festivals, RVs and the internet
Making lesbians visible in the substance abuse field
Lesbian academic couples

Volume 10
Challenging lesbian norms:  Intersex, transgender, intersectional, and queer perspectives
"Lesbians" in East Asia: Diversity, identities, and resistance

Volume 11
Twenty-first century lesbian studies