The politics of lesbian specificity.
The notion of lesbian specificity must be understood in the context of heteronormative society. Heterosexual norms affect negotiations of power and sexual desire in lesbian relationships. But this investigation into woman-to-woman sexual practices also views the possibility of lesbian specificity as potentially subversive, in the sense that it poses fundamental questions about conventional discourses on sexuality and eroticism.
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Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway. agnes.bolso@hf.ntnu.no
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D020010:Heterosexuality / Q000523:psychology; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011057:Politics; D011209:Power, Psychological