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Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbian cultures and identities in contemporary Spain. Bringing together key essays from a range of international scholars, this anthology of critical essays examines the changing cultural, sociological and political landscape of Spain at the turn of the millennium. Divided into two sections, the first contributions focus on the realities of lesbian lives and looks at how Spanish lesbian identities are constructed through language and the media. The essays in the second section analyze contemporary lesbian identities as manifested in novels and short stories published since the late 1980s by authors such as Carme Riera, Lola van Guardia, Flavia Company and Mabel GalOn. The aim of this volume is to provide a significant and coherent contribution in English to the body of knowledge within an evolving subject area that has remained relatively under-researched until recently. This is an invaluable publication for teachers and students of Spanish cultural studies, global sexuality and gender studies.

An expanded version of the entry for the Oxford Companion to Australian Politics (2007). It argues that there used to be two strands to lesbian politics during the early 1970s—'liberal pluralist' and lesbian feminist—the first asking for mainstream recognition, the second claiming to pose a challenge to that mainstream. The clearest statements of lesbian feminism came from the US, the Australian accounts largely being critical. The paper discusses these accounts, as well as some of the issues that were preoccupying lesbian feminists at the time, such as relationships and the treatment of lesbian mothers' custody cases by the Family Court.

This is a 1000-word encyclopedia entry arguing that lesbian politics in Australia had two strands, one that might be called 'liberal pluralist', and the other lesbian feminist (although both were argued within feminism). The first asked for mainstream recognition and acceptance of lesbianism as a valid alternative lifestyle, the second claimed to pose a challenge and a threat to that mainstream, particularly to the norm of heterosexuality for women.