- Title
- (Dis)allowances of lesbians’ sexual identities: Lesbian identity construction in racialised, classed, familial, and institutional spaces
- Creator
- Gibson, Alexandra F, Macleod, Catriona I
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6222
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006536
- Identifier
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353512459580
- Description
- This article explores how lesbian identity construction is facilitated and constrained by the raced, classed, gendered, familial, and geographical spaces that women occupy. We present a narrative-discursive analysis of eight lesbians’ stories of sexuality, told within a historically white university in South Africa. Three interpretative repertoires that emerged in the narratives are discussed. The ‘disallowance of lesbian identity in particular racialised and class-based spaces’ repertoire, deployed by black lesbians only, was used to account for their de-emphasis of a lesbian identity through the invocation of a threat of danger and stereotyping. The ‘disjuncture of the (heterosexual) family and lesbian identity’ repertoire emphasised how the expectation of support and care within a family does not necessarily extend to acceptance of a lesbian identity.
- Format
- 33 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Gibson, A., & Macleod, C. (2012). (Dis)allowances of lesbians’ sexual identities: Lesbian identity construction in racialised, classed, familial, and institutional spaces. Feminism & Psychology, 22(4), 462–481. http://fap.sagepub.com/content/22/4/462.refs
- Rights
- Pre-print version
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