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... you don't become a mother by being a lesbian

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Title

... you don't become a mother by being a lesbian

Subject

Gay Liberation

Description

This segment of the Iowa City-based feminist newspaper, "Ain't I A Woman?" put out by the local chapter of the Women's Liberation Front, focuses on lesbianism and childcare. The two essays argue against lesbians having children. The issue also includes several poems. The author of the essays is unknown.

Creator

Women's Liberation Front

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

May 1974

Type

underground press

Original Format

newspaper

Collection

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Citation

Women's Liberation Front, “... you don't become a mother by being a lesbian,” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed March 31, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/521.

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