http://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/volltexte/2015/944/pdf/Maser_Beautiful_and_Innocent.pdf

PhD thesis about yuri. 183 pages.

This will be a fun read. My question is how the hell did you find it? xD

You her friend or something? I've seen this posted in several places already when this is not the only western academic article on yuri around. To me, the Eureka magazine issue badly needs to be translated, as that is almost the only in-depth publication that the Japanese themselves ever did on the yuri genre which they, you know, created.

I'd love to read this thesis sometime. You should maybe mention this on the "Yuri on Other Media" thread.
Anyway, here's an article by Erica on Okazu about Eureka Magazine – Current State of Yuri Culture ( ユリイカ 百合文化の現在),

and also Second Eureka “Yuri Culture” Article on the Yuricon Essays Page!

in case you haven't seen them

This will be a fun read. My question is how the hell did you find it? xD

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You her friend or something? I've seen this posted in several places already when this is not the only western academic article on yuri around. To me, the Eureka magazine issue badly needs to be translated, as that is almost the only in-depth publication that the Japanese themselves ever did on the yuri genre which they, you know, created.

No. found it around.

You can also find it on Yuricon, under essays, along with plentiful other works.

http://www.yuricon.com/essays/