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Male Lesbians and the Postmodernist Body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jacquelyn N. Zita
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Abstract

This essay explores the criteria for lesbian identity attribution through the case study of “male lesbians”: biological males who claim to be lesbians. I analyze such sexlgender identity attribution through the lens of postmodernism, which provides a workable theoretical framework for “male lesbian” identities. My conclusions explore the historicity and cultural constructedness of the body's sexlgender identities, revealing the limitations of both “the postmodemized body” and “the essentialized modernist body.”

Type
CONSTRUCTING “LESBIAN”
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Lesbian Philosophy , Fall 1992 , pp. 106 - 127
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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