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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) 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". She also questioned why lesbians should want the love and respect of society, given the way it treated them.
 She also maintained that while Martin and Lyon's account of lesbianism was accurate as far as it went, it ignored "the various alternatives now open to lesbians."{{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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