Disappearing Dykes? Post-Lesbian Discourse and Shifting Identities and Communities

Forstie, Clare

doi:10.1080/00918369.2019.1613857

Cited by 22 publications

(18 citation statements)

References 40 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…They include scholarship that deals with queer, lesbian women and spatialities across a range of disciplines and subject fields. However, the composition of the lesbian community is not straightforward and can encompass ‘an array of sexual and gender identities: lesbian, of course, as well as bisexual, queer, pansexual, polyamorous, and other sexual identities, and transgender and cisgender women, transgender men, and genderqueer and non-binary people’ (Forstie, 2019: 5). Moreover, the concerns of lesbian communities have varied temporally.…”

Section: Lesbian Geographies In Post-identity/queer Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lesbian geographies have been coupled with and discussed alongside gay male or Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans+ (LGBT+) geographies (Bell and Valentine, 1995a, 1995b; Binnie and Valentine, 1999). With the advent of queer deconstructions of identity signifiers, such as woman/lesbian, their spatial manifestations have been contested to the extent that lesbians have been (re)placed as invalid subjects even for queer geographies and geographies of sexualities (Browne, 2007a; Forstie, 2019; Podmore, 2013). This overlooking and subsuming of lesbian geographies is problematic because gender and sexualities intertwine in the creation of social difference through inequitable relations of power.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Geographies of sexuality I: Making room for lesbianism

Browne

2020

Progress in Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite three decades of this vibrant sub-discipline, this is the first progress report on lesbian geographies. They are crucial to contemporary sexualities focusing on female-identified same-sex lives, relationships, desires, practices and discriminations. Lesbian placemaking explores intersections of sexualities and gender, and race, class and age that are central to the mutual reconstitution of people and place. Overall, this report demonstrates both the vibrancy of lesbian geographies and the importance of exploring the intersections of gender and sexualities in engaging with the underpinning premise of human geography, namely the mutual constitution of people and place.

show abstract

Section: Lesbian Geographies In Post-identity/queer Timesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of sexuality I: Making room for lesbianism

Browne

2020

Progress in Human Geography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…It helped to highlight women's specific experiences which were too often subsumed under the overly medicalised term "homosexuality" which also, like "transvestitism", tended to refer to men. Moreover, despite some scholars suggestions that we have entered an era of "post lesbian" discourse, the term held, and to some degree continues to hold, deep meaning, and material consequences for some women's everyday lives, and their political mobilisation (Forstie, 2019;McNaron, 2007). These reasons are also why we refer to the "lesbian and gay" movement, rather than the more contemporary and inclusive "LGBTQIAþ" movement, even though activists may not have all been exclusively lesbian, gay or cisgendered.…”

Section: Identifying Political Strategies: Methodologies and Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Separatist strategies can be criticised as being essentialist or engaging in unnecessary fragmenting of what should have been a broader progressive movement for sexual and gender liberation. In particular, lesbians of colour were reportedly sceptical of the revolutionary potential of lesbian separatism (Forstie, 2019). Yet, as Power argues, “it should be remembered that those politics arose out of a more than justified anger” at how women were treated within these organisations (1995, p. 242).…”

Section: Complicating Histories Of Activism and The Psy-professionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A history of lesbian politics and the psy professions

Spandler

Carr

2020

Feminism & Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article explores the relationship between lesbian activists and the “psy professions” (especially psychology and psychiatry) in England from the 1960s to the 1980s. We draw on UK-based LGBTQIA+ archive sources and specifically magazines produced by, and for, lesbians. We use this material to identify three key strategies used within the lesbian movement to contest psycho-pathologisation during this 30-year period: from respectable collaborationist forms of activism during the 1960s; to more liberationist oppositional politics during the early 1970s; to radical feminist separatist activism in the 1980s. Whilst these strategies broadly map onto activist strategies deployed within the wider lesbian and gay movement during this time, this article explores how these politics manifested in particular ways, specifically in relation to the psy disciplines in the UK. We describe these strategies, illustrating them with examples of activism from the archives. We then use this history to problematise a linear, overly reductionist or binary history of liberation from psycho-pathologisation. Finally, we explore some complexities in the relationship between sexuality, activism and the psy professions.

show abstract

“…Further, scholarship has also addressed more specifically the changing nature of spaces for lesbian, bisexual, and queeridentified women in urban areas. Most of this work focuses on how the number of community institutions visibly marked as lesbian, like bars and bookstores, have declined if not completely disappeared, which some scholars discuss vis-a-vis changes in communities' and individual's understandings of sexual identity (Forstie, 2019;. For instance, in her work focused on lesbian spaces in Montreal, Podmore (2006) argues that those spaces became more fragmented alongside a shift away from a staticbased notion of lesbian identity toward a more fluid notion of sexual identity.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to special issue “Geographies of Sexualities”

Kazyak

2019

Journal of Lesbian Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this foreword to the special issue "Geographies of Sexualities," I provide a review of the scholarly discussions about place and sexuality that have occurred in the past 20 years. I highlight five major themes in my synthesis of this scholarship: (1) how narratives about geography and sexuality are co-constitutive; (2) a critical interrogation of these narratives to demonstrate how more nuances exist than these narratives suggest; (3) assessments of the spatial distribution of women in same-sex relationships, comparisons to the spatial distribution of men in same-sex relationships, and analyses of the experiences of women in areas with high concentrations of women in same-sex relationships and urban lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) neighborhoods; (4) comparisons across spaces to address the effect of place on outcomes such as well-being and how mobilities and movements across geographies matter; and (5) discussions as to whether, how, and why the geographies and spaces of lesbian, bisexual, and queer-identified women are shifting. My goal is to highlight these themes in order to contextualize how the articles in this special issue continue discussions and introduce new questions for the field.

show abstract

Disappearing Dykes? Post-Lesbian Discourse and Shifting Identities and Communities

Cited by 22 publications

References 40 publications

Geographies of sexuality I: Making room for lesbianism

Geographies of sexuality I: Making room for lesbianism

A history of lesbian politics and the psy professions

Introduction to special issue “Geographies of Sexualities”

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About