Male Subjectivity at the Margins

Each piece. Chapters are entitled 'Beginnings', 'Kin', 'Becoming', 'Uniforms', 'Out', 'Mind and body', 'Together', 'Power and community', and there is minimal editorial text between each extract. Reading What a Lesbian Looks Like emphasizes the authenticity and diversity of lesbian voices in Britain. The lack of any editorial comment or context to the extracts has particular effects. The extracts were presumably selected and organized into chapters by the NLGS team, but very little information is available on how this process occurred. Was it simply on the basis of the most common themes in the Survey submissions, or were particular themes given special priority, and if so, why? Presenting the extracts in this…