What experiences do women have when they come to identify
themselves as lesbian? What happens when they consider telling
family and friends about their sexual identity? This book examines
these questions on the basis of interviews with individuals and
other source materials. Coming out can only be understood, the
author stresses, against the backdrop of a firmly heterosexist
society. The dominant heterosexual culture tends to freeze gender
divisions in such a way as to polarize sexual identities.
The author focuses more upon the isolated lesbian, rather than
upon political lesbianism. Coming out is seen to be a complex and
emotional process, but one that is potentially highly rewarding.
Lesbians, Markowe shows, have to struggle with both their
'invisibility' in the predominantly heterosexual culture, but also
with perceptions of threat and abnormality. Coming out to family
and heterosexual friends involves risks and benefits. Case studies
of lesbian women are discussed in the context of the threat to, and
reconstruction of, identity which the coming-out process
presumes.
This book will be of interest to second year undergraduates and
above working in the fields of women's studies, social psychology
and the psychology or sociology of gender.
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