Lesbians and film: Some thoughts.

Lesbians in Western cultures in particular often classify themselves as having an identity that defines their individual sexuality, as well as their membership to a group that shares common traits.

Lesbians who held a more essentialist view that they had been born homosexual and used the descriptor " lesbian " to define sexual attraction, often considered the separatist, angry opinions of lesbian-feminists to be detrimental to the cause of gay rights.

* Hollywood Lesbians is a collection of frank, often revealing interviews with ten lesbians in the entertainment industry.

Lesbians in the U. S. are estimated to be about 2. 6 % of the population, according to a National Opinion Research Center survey of sexually active adults who had had same-sex experiences within the past year, completed in 2000.

These included " Lesbians ", " Everybody's Talkin ' About Football ", " Hip Hop Is The Best ", " 1942 " ( appeared in the 15 year special, while being a song about inventions such as floors, trees, shoes and the ' flu ) and even a rendition of the Rentaghost theme song.

* The Gay Report: Lesbians and Gay Men Speak Out about Sexual Experiences and Lifestyles ( Summit Books, 1979 )

Lesbians as predators were presented in Rebecca ( 1940 ), women's prison films like Caged ( 1950 ), or in the character Rosa Klebb in From Russia, With Love ( 1963 ).

To some extent the situation also reflected Fleming's own opinions, expressed in the novel as part of Bond's thoughts, where " her sexual confusion is attributable to women's suffrage "; in addition, as Fleming himself put it in the book: " Bond felt the sexual challenge all beautiful Lesbians have for men.

In 1999, Susan Brownmiller described the impact by writing that " Lesbians would be silent no longer in the women's movement " ( 98 ).

* Alpert, Rebecca, Like Bread on a Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition Columbia University Press, New York, 1997.

Lesbians may encounter distinct physical or mental health concerns.

In 1928 a book titled The Lesbians of Berlin written by Ruth Margarite Röllig further popularized the German capital as a center of lesbian activity.

Lesbians are more likely to exercise regularly than heterosexual women, and lesbians do not generally exercise for aesthetic reasons, although heterosexual women do.

Lesbians are not included in a category of frequency of human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) transmission, although transmission is possible through vaginal and cervical secretions.

Lesbians who view themselves with male standards of female beauty may experience lower self-esteem, eating disorders, and higher incidence of depression.

Lesbians and bisexual women have a higher likelihood of reporting problems with alcohol, as well as not being satisfied with treatment for substance abuse programs.

Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U. S. A. Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

Boston Marriages: Romantic But Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians, University of Massachusetts Press.

From ' Perverts ' to ' Fab Five ': The Media's Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians, Routledge.

Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on TV, Applause Theater and Cinema Books.

Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexual.

" Lesbians and gay men have a right, and a duty, to expose hypocrites and homophobes.

Douglas Haldeman writes in " Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy for Gay Men and Lesbians: A Scientific Examination " that early behavioral forms of conversion therapy mainly employed aversive conditioning techniques, involving electric shock and nausea-inducing drugs during presentation of same-sex erotic images.

Lesbians may regard oral sex or fingering as loss of virginity.

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

A third such individual at the time was Georg Faust, upon whom several pieces of later literature were written, such as Christopher Marlow's Faust, that portrayed him as consulting with demons.

The same constructs of how lesbians were portrayed — or for what reasons — as what had appeared in literature were placed on women in the films.

For a study of the various ways Glyndŵr has been portrayed in Welsh-language literature of the modern period, see E. Wyn James, Glyndŵr a Gobaith y Genedl: Agweddau ar y Portread o Owain Glyndŵr yn Llenyddiaeth y Cyfnod Modern ( English: Glyndower and the Hope of the Nation: Attitudes to the Portrait of Owen Glyndower in Modern Age Literature ) ( Aberystwyth: Cymdeithas Llyfrau Ceredigion, 2007 ).

* Polyphemus has been repeatedly portrayed in post-classical art and literature.

While few women are mentioned by name in rabbinic literature, and none are known to have authored a rabbinic work, those who are mentioned are portrayed as having a strong influence on their husbands, and occasionally having a public persona.

The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature.

Terminus is the god of boundaries ( public and private ), as he is portrayed in literature.

Her life has been portrayed in literature, film and song.

Isabella became a popular " femme fatale " figure in plays and literature over the years, usually portrayed as a beautiful but cruel, manipulative figure.

He argues that in the Renaissance the mad were portrayed in art as possessing a kind of wisdom, a knowledge of the limits of our world, and portrayed in literature as revealing the distinction between what men are and what they pretend to be.

Promiscuity is very often portrayed in literature, cinema and television, for example in the popular series Sex and the City.

In the account of the deuteronomic history, Ephraim is portrayed as domineering, haughty, discontented, and jealous, but in classical rabbinical literature, the biblical founder of the tribe is described as being modest and not selfish.

In Homer's Iliad he is portrayed as an energetic and impetuous warrior, but in medieval literature he becomes a witty and licentious figure who facilitates the affair between Troilus and Cressida.

" Lewis, a liberal who in 1930 had won the Nobel Prize in literature, portrayed a genuine American dictator on the Hitler model.

He is the hero of one of the greatest works of Middle English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where he is portrayed as an excellent, but human, knight.

In contemporary literature and pantomime, the " Grand Vizier " is a character stereotype and is usually portrayed as a scheming backroom plotter and the clear power behind the throne of a usually bumbling or incompetent monarch.

The " tragic " contradiction between romance and society is most forcibly portrayed in literature, in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, in Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Reconstructing the historical Cornelia proves problematic in that the figure portrayed in Roman literature likely represents more what she signified to Roman writers than an objective account.

Another reviewer, agreeing that Lewis was certainly no Twain, calls Babbitt “ a monstrous, bawling, unconscionable satire ,” and writes “ Mr. Lewis is the most phenomenally skillful exaggerator in literature today .” Although many critics agreed that there was some truth in the depiction of America Lewis put forth, they could not agree that it existed to the extent portrayed in Babbitt.

Huang Zhong had always been portrayed in popular literature and arts as an elderly general with youthful vigor and constitution.

Just to the south of Porter is a signature campus art piece, a large red abstract sculpture which has been endlessly portrayed on UCSC's promotional literature.