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Back to topLesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships (Monograph Published Simultaneously as the Journal of Lesbian #8) (Hardcover)
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"We have earned a certain place in each other's lives, and in the best of times we can rest on what we have made together." Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships examines the need for the development of better understanding and more critical analysis of lesbian ex-lover relationships. This eye-opening look into the minds and hearts of women offers personal insight into the possibilities for and potential pitfalls of lesbian ex-lover relations. This book contains personal stories, fictional accounts, poetry, and theoretical analyses of the frequency and significance of ex-lovers at different stages in a relationship. Topics of interest in Lesbian Ex-Lovers include:
- the roles ex-lovers play in our lives
- ex-lovers as contexts for change and development
- how we continue to be influenced by ex-lovers
- letting go and moving on
- ex-lovers as current friends and family
- themes of betrayal and loss of faith
- reconstructing friendships and community
- the mystique of the ex-lover
- friend/family connections among lesbian ex-lovers
- Michelle Gibson, PhD--educator and editor of Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go-- who says goodbye to her lover in a sad, passionate elegy
- Marny Hall--Psychotherapist, editor of the anthology Sexualities, and author of several books, including The Lavender Couch: A Consumer's Guide to Psychotherapy for Lesbians and Gay Men--who muses on the unique bonding between lesbians and their ex-lovers, lending a mystique that surrounds the lesbian lifestyle
- Alison Bechdel--creator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For--who presents a humorous comic strip thanking her former lovers for teaching her about herself
- Jane Futcher--newspaper reporter and author of three novels--who uses a chapter in her novel to illustrate the tensions that can occur when ex-lovers choose to remain friends, especially when those bonds provoke jealousy in both current and ex-lovers
- Renny Christopher--educator and award-winning poetess--who expresses her love, loss, and regret in three poems about her ex-lover
- and much more