Lesbianism

2017/12/04 by Elizabeth Ettorre · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Gender, Feminism, and Media #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

paper · doi:10.1002/9781118430873.est0211

openalex publication_date 2017/12/04 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

Lesbianism can be understood as same‐sex attraction, love, or romantic desire between women. Lesbianism emerged as a visible social phenomenon in the mid‐twentieth century. Since that time, understanding of the concept has developed exponentially from defining the practice of lesbianism on an individual level as a pathology or deviance to seeing lesbianism on a cultural level as an expression of social difference among gendered, sexed, desiring subjects.

Citations

• Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
• "I Can't Even Think Straight" "Queer" Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology

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• Betsy Ettorre [wikipedia]

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