Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage, Context, and Lesbian Identity written by Julie Whitlow and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the first lesbians to marry in the United States are using or avoiding the word wife at this historic juncture when the definition of marriage is undergoing a shift. It will interest the LGBTQ community and its allies, political activists, feminists, and scholars of sociology, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and gender.