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Lesbian Exclusion: 'i Didn't Learn It in a Cognisant Sense, I Absorbed It through My Skin'
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dyson, Suzanne |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | This article explores the ways in which a group of women in a study about lesbian health negotiated their sexual identity over time. This occurred through experiences of exclusion, being rendered unrecognisable as lesbian subjects and by embodying normalising and homophobic discourses that produce lesbianism as deviant. Many of the experiences related by the women happened early in their lives, but the impact remained with them in the present. These experiences affect the ways in which they negotiated the health care system and their own sexual subjectivity. The paper draws on the work of queer theorist Judith Butler in relation to survivable subjects, intelligible genders and domains of speakability. It concludes by drawing attention to the implications for this in clinical practice. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hivdatf.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/lesbian-exclusion.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
