This accessible book offers support and advice for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality. It also offers guidance for the single lovers of married women. In sharing the author's personal story, as well as the descriptive experiences of others, this book provides validation and empowerment to multitudes of women in their search for their true identities.

In this third edition of Married Women Who Love Women, the author gives women ways in which to structure and restructure their lives and their families after they realize their same-gender sexuality. Chapters consider questions such as how women make this discovery, reactions from loved ones, and the outcomes for marriages and families. Updated throughout with contemporary understandings of sexuality and gender, this book includes a wealth of information, fresh narratives, and stories offering insight into women's experiences across the country.

This is an essential read for women and their partners who are discovering their true identity, as well as therapists, helping professionals, and students of women's studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, and LGBTQ studies programs. ****

Autorentext

Carren Strock is equally at home with a paintbrush and canvas, a needle and thread, or a hammer and nails. While eclectic in her writing as she is in her other interests, she is best known for Married Women Who Love Women, her definitive sociological study, now in its third edition.

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1: The Discovery 1. Awakening 2. What Am I? 3. What Now? Part 2: A New Life 4. Do I Tell My Husband or Not? 5. The Husbands 6. What Do the Kids Think? 7. Coming Out to Friends and Family Part 3: Options 8. The Reality of Marriage 9. Redefined Marriages 10. New Kinds of Relationships Including Polyamorous Ones 11. The Single Lovers of Married Women 12. Labeling: No Longer So Simple Part 4: Selfhood 13. Sexual Intimacy 14. New Beginnings 15. What Does Transgender Mean? 16. Then and Now, or Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda Part 5: More Women's Stories 17. More Women's Stories Appendix: Where to Turn for Help and Information