{"product_id":"lesbian-ex-lovers","title":"Lesbian Ex-Lovers","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 Rather than totally scrap a relationship, we recycle itfrom lover to ex-lover to friend in a relatively short half-life. Lesbian Ex-Lovers is the only book in print that explores how a lesbian’s ex-lovers impact her subsequent romances and lifestyle. This special collection adds a new dynamic to the current literature for and about the lesbian community.\u003cbr\u003e Lesbian Ex-Lovers offers advice, anecdotes, and interpretations from such authors, poetesses, and artists as Michelle Gibson, PhDeducator 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 HallPsychotherapist, editor of the anthology Sexualities, and author of several books, including The Lavender Couch: A Consumer’s Guide to Psychotherapy for Lesbians and Gay Menwho muses on the unique bonding between lesbians and their ex-lovers, lending a mystique that surrounds the lesbian lifestyle  Alison Bechdelcreator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out Forwho presents a humorous comic strip thanking her former lovers for teaching her about herself  Jane Futchernewspaper reporter and author of three novelswho 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 Christophereducator and award-winning poetesswho expresses her love, loss, and regret in three poems about her ex-lover  and much more!","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44559901065454,"sku":"9781560232834","price":80.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781560232834.jpg?v=1703703771","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/lesbian-ex-lovers","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}