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{{Infobox book
| name             = Lesbian/Woman
| image            = File:Lesbian-Woman (first edition).jpg
| caption          = Cover of the first edition
| authors          = [[Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon]]
| illustrator      = 
| cover_artist     = 
| country          = United States
(contracted; show full)#x27;' would prove useful to feminists because of its history of the lesbian and lesbian feminist movements in the United States. She maintained that it benefited from Martin and Lyon's personal experience as lesbians, and credited them with accurately assessing the "three main sources of institutionalized oppression of lesbians" as organized religion, the medical profession, and the government. She also endorsed Martin and Lyon's criticism of psychoanalytic theories of lesbianism.
 However, she found that the book "too often reads as an apology", and believed that Martin and Lyon were wrong to demand that society give lesbians love and respect, writing that this was impossible given "the way society is presently constituted".{{sfn|Trzcinski|1972|pages=10–11}}

===Other evaluations===
Jennifer Terry described ''Lesbian/Woman'' as "a foundational text of lesbian-feminism" and commented that in many respects it, "resembles previous social scientific surveys and early psychiatric case histories produced as a result of voluntary lesbian participation in studies." She added that, "One can identify a similarity in the discursive structure of the subjects' self-descriptions reported in (contracted; show full)* {{cite web |last1=Gianoulis|first1=Tina |url = http://www.glbtq.com/ | title = Lyon, Phyllis, (b. 1924) and Del Martin (1921-2008) |date=2015 |work=[[glbtq.com|GLBTQ Social Sciences]] |accessdate = 24 November 2017 |ref=harv}}
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