The Incredible Shrinking Lesbian World and other Queer Conundra
Abstract
This is a reflection on the state of lesbian identity politics, focusing on claims that lesbian subcultures are shrinking and even dying. Current fears focus on the increasingly permeable boundaries between butch lesbians and female-to-male transgender individuals, but its history is much longer. What we are seeing, quite possibly, is the exhaustion of a particular historical construction: a group of individuals who are defined primarily on the basis of their sexuality, and the rise of more specific identities which combine sexual preference, gender presentation and other modes of identification. This was the first annual Sally Miller Gearhart Lecture in Lesbian Studies, sponsored by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon, in May 2009
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Rejection of normative sexual identity categories and adoption of other identity categories has been shown to occur more among younger individuals.
“Rejection of normative sexual identity categories (i.e., gay, lesbian, bisexual) and adoption of other identity categories (i.e., queer, pansexual) has been shown to occur more among younger individuals”
From Intersections between Sexual Identity, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Behavior among a Nationally Representative Sample of American Men and Women (2019) · cites this paper as Stein 2010
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- Authors
- Stein, A.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stein, Arlene
- ORCID
- Stein, Arlene
- Venue
- Sexualities
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-02
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 21-32
- ISSN
- 1363-4607 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7382
- OpenAlex
- W2038388477
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 5
- FWCI
- 0.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sexualities (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Sexuality, and Education
- Keywords
- lesbian subculture, butch lesbians, transgender men, gender identity, sexual identity, queer identity, identity construction
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