What constitutes lesbian identity? The term homonormativity
describes current prevailing idealized assumptions about lesbian
identity. This concept, however, marginalizes subgroups within the
greater lesbian population. Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex,
Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives dynamically
confronts homonormativity in lesbian communities by presenting
expert multidisciplinary discussion about what is a definable
lesbian identity. This text sensitively explores difficult issues
about gender policing and the viewpoints in lesbian communities
that hold that transgender, intersectional, and queer individuals
are considered to have 'false consciousness.' Consequences of
lesbian normativity, both for lesbian communities and for
marginalized groups are examined through literary criticism,
lesbian, feminist, and queer theories, corporeal philosophy, film,
television, cultural criticism, personal narratives, public health,
and field research. The issue of the authenticity of lesbian
identity causes rifts between some lesbian communities and the
groups that strive to be included, yet are still marginalized.
Challenging Lesbian Norms directly exposes practices and beliefs
within lesbian communities that lead to the assumption of the
prototypical lesbian. The book courageously reveals the
similarities of lesbian normative stances with other views such as
Christian conservative rhetoric, and reviews the health
consequences of being marginalized within the lesbian communities.
This text actively challenges the foundational notion within
lesbian communities that a stable, immutable lesbian sex exists.
Topics in Challenging Lesbian Norms include: human physiology, the
flexibility of sexuality, and biologic determinism marginalization
within lesbian communities transexualism and Lesbian Theory gender
and sexual identity construction, partnering practices, and issues
involving queer-identified youth demystification of the gay vibe
from a femme queer woman's perspective lesbian feminism, gender
policing, and casting butch, FTM, and transgendered subjectivities
as false conciousness representations of lesbians in television
movies Native-American two-spirit women teaching transgender, and
its transformative effect identity modeling inclusion of
transgender and intersex individuals within the lesbian communities
transgender characters in film Latina lesbians and mental health
Challenging Lesbian Norms is stimulating, eye-opening reading that
is perfect for activists, educators and students in LGBT and
women's studies, and public health professionals.
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