Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships (eBook)

Narratives of Sexual Identity

Ahoo Tabatabai (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
112 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0562-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Using narrative analysis, this book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with other women to begin relationships with men in order to understand how these women make sense of their sexual identities.

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This book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with women to begin relationships with men, and uncovers how the women make sense of who they are. The women who leave female partners to begin relationships with male partners have the capacity to redefine their sexual identity. They can essentially call themselves whatever they want. However, their capacity for such a creative process is limited. In the process of framing their decision in a way that renders their claim to a stable identity legitimate, the women communicate their understandings of notions of identity, community, and belonging. The women also show a nuanced regard for sexual categories. They stretch the boundaries of some categories, while preserving and even policing the boundaries of other categories. This book is in no way an ex-gay narrative. It is entirely the voices of feminist, queer women who find themselves viewed by society as heterosexual, but who themselves, with two exceptions, do not identify as such. This book is a rich collection of wonderfully human stories about what it means to be ';true' to oneself.

Autor

Ahoo Tabatabai is assistant professor of sociology in the Psychology and Sociology Department at Columbia College.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Individual and Her Stories Chapter 1: NarrativesChapter 2: AppearanceChapter 3: Not BisexualChapter 4: Not LesbianChapter 5: Not StraightChapter 6: Hetero-cash

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.10.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Gay Studies • Gender Studies • Sociology • women's studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0562-7 / 1498505627
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0562-8 / 9781498505628