Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda

Wilton, Tamsin

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“…Lesbian and Gay studies is an innovative and rapidly expanding academic enterprise. (Wilton, 1995, p. 1)…”

Section: Bisexuality: Is It Invisible In Sexualities Scholarship?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While there were divergences between the work of different authors (see Richardson & Monro, 2012), between 1980 and the 1990s, institutionalised lesbian and gay studies tended to develop, rather than sexuality studies that included many sexual identities. This may be partly because the homophobia faced by gay and lesbian authors in the academy (Plummer, 1992; Wilton, 1995) contributed towards the development of separate scholarly communities which did not include people who crossed homosexual/heterosexual boundaries. The institutionalisation of lesbian and gay studies (rather than a more inclusive LGBT or LGBTQ studies) is still pertinent, for example ‘Researchers in lesbian and gay studies are now not writing in the sole context of silence and invisibility, where critical stances may well be possible only because a literature, which can be mobilised in our defence, exists’ (Taylor et al, 2011, p. 38).…”

Section: Bisexuality: Is It Invisible In Sexualities Scholarship?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Is bisexuality invisible? A review of sexualities scholarship 1970–2015

Monro

Hines

Osborne

2017

The Sociological Review

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This paper provides a review of sexualities scholarship within the social sciences between 1970 and 2015. It takes an innovative approach by focussing on the way in which bisexuality is addressed in this body of literature. The paper reveals the marginalisation, underrepresentation, and invisibility of bisexuality within and across the social sciences in relation to both bisexual experience and identity. Reasons for this varied across the different eras, including the heterosexist nature of the literature, the impact of gay and lesbian-focused identity politics, and queer deconstructionism. In addition, patterns of bisexual erasure and invisibility were uneven, with some scholarship taking inclusive approaches or criticising prejudice against bisexuality. The initial findings of the review were enriched by critical commentary from key relevant sociologists and political scientists. The paper concludes that future sexualities scholarship could be enhanced by greater consideration of bisexuality.

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“…Lesbian and Gay studies is an innovative and rapidly expanding academic enterprise. (Wilton, 1995, p. 1)…”

Section: Bisexuality: Is It Invisible In Sexualities Scholarship?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bisexuality: Is It Invisible In Sexualities Scholarship?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Is bisexuality invisible? A review of sexualities scholarship 1970–2015

Monro

Hines

Osborne

2017

The Sociological Review

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“…A key motivation for creating such alternative spaces is to challenge what are read as societal gender oppressions and hierarchies (Nicki 2006; Sweeney 2004; Wheelan 1995). Feminist separatism can have various dimensions ranging from a complete separation from men (for example, by living in women‐only communes) to the exclusion of men from sexual relations, to women’s festivals where there are only female performers and only women are invited to attend (Calhoun 1995; Morris 1999; WGSG 1984; Wilton 1995).…”

Section: Feminist Geographies and Feminist Separatismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Womyn’s separatist spaces: rethinking spaces of difference and exclusion

Browne¹

2009

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper rethinks geographical explorations of social difference by interrogating ameliorative and pleasurable aspects of marginal spaces. Re‐introducing womyn’s separatist spaces contests feminist geographical writing in this area, requiring an examination of both the alternative ways of living that are created, and the pain of producing ‘womyn‐only’ spaces in order for such spaces to exist. The paper draws on qualitative research with 238 attendees at the 31st Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Womyn spoke of the pleasures of the festival and positive affinities with other womyn, as well as the festival’s herstory of conflict, negotiation and compromise. Although accounts relay ‘growing pains’ that constitute the festival’s current form, the current temporal and spatial segregations of ‘womyn’, through the womyn‐born womyn policy, has resulted in something of an impasse. Rather than reductively posing ‘the latest problem’ of feminist separatism as the exclusion of trans women because of this policy, or unequivocally celebrating the festival’s role in womyn’s lives and herstory, these polarised conceptualisations are held in tension. This enables a consideration of the paradoxes and juxtaposition of womyn’s space and Camp Trans (a protest camp that opposes the womyn‐born womyn policy) as productive. In this way, the paper argues for an engagement with marginalised and alternative spaces of difference that allow for positive affectivities and productive tensions that do not neglect relations of power.

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“…The position I found helpful for conceptualising sexual identity as potentially open to change, without abstracting it from power as a directional concept, is that of Tamsin Wilton. 32 She discusses various models of sexual identity that reinforce different claims to "truth" about the sexual self. In order to avoid complicity in the project of oppressive social control, Wilton chooses the particular location of the "lesbian."…”

Section: Feminism and Sexual Identity: Queering The Lesbianmentioning

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Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and Desire

Erzsébet

2008

Negotiating Sexual Idioms

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Language and sexuality research has recently seen a heated debate over whether the linguistic constitution of sexuality should still be focused on matters of identity or rather on matters of desire. I want to contribute to that debate and argue that this is a non-productive dichotomy. We need to stop the counter-effective spectator sport of academic in-fighting and see desire as one aspect of the articulation of sexual identity. To demonstrate the advantages of the proposed intersectional approach, I will analyse the case of the initiative of the Hungarian Lesbian NGO called Labrisz that approached secondary schools in the country, offering help in the sexual education of the pupils and organising discussions of dissident sexual orientation. I will carry out an ideology critique of the NGO leaflet sent to the directors to argue that, for a pedagogical initiative to successfully inhabit the weaknesses of the heterosexual norm, it should not exclude the discussion of desire but highlight desire as an important dimension of sexual identity, especially as part of a project launched in the name of authenticity.

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Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda

Cited by 115 publications

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Is bisexuality invisible? A review of sexualities scholarship 1970–2015

Is bisexuality invisible? A review of sexualities scholarship 1970–2015

Womyn’s separatist spaces: rethinking spaces of difference and exclusion

Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of Sexual Identity and Desire

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