Lesbian Visibility Politics in Manchester's LGBTQ+ Spaces

This book centres lesbian lives and perspectives to provide novel understandings of LGBTQ+ research, culture, and society, showing that understandings of these issues are often distorted by an androcentric approach to knowledge production. In addition to providing fresh empirical insight into the politics of LGBTQ+ spaces, the book also provides a commentary on the limiting consequences of not adequately incorporating women s experiences into research and provides new insights into the shaping of (in)visibility and belonging in LGBTQ+ social spaces.

Chapter 1. Introduction. - Chapter 2. Lesbian Perspectives of Manchester s Commercial and Alternative LGBTQ+ Spaces. - Chapter 3. Lesbian Looks and The Lesbian Visibility Hierarchy. - Chapter 4. Homopatriarchy. - Chapter 5. Theoretical, epistemological, and practical implications.