Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer PerspectivesWhat 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:
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Contents
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Reconsidering Transsexual Subjects in Lesbian Communities | 17 |
Identity and Health in the Margins of Lesbian and Trans Communities | 43 |
Articulating My Own Version of a Femme Lesbian Existence | 73 |
Rethinking Pain in Archetypal Narratives of Butch Transgender and FTM Masculinity | 87 |
New Narratives of Queer Containment in the Television Movie | 107 |
Identity Experiences and Challenges Among American Indian TwoSpirit Women | 125 |
Snarls and Strategies | 151 |
Developing an Identity Model for Transgender and Intersex Inclusion in Lesbian Communities | 181 |
Between and Beyond LesbianNormativity and TransNormativity | 201 |
Trans Acceptance in Lesbian Utopia | 215 |
A TransPositive Analysis | 231 |
Severely Mentally Ill Latina WSW Navigating Differentness | 249 |
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