Crossing the Border: Locating Heterosexuality as a Boundary for Lesbian Women and Disabled Women

Description

No / This article draws on my personal experience, and on the separate
experiences of 'leaving heterosexuality' and of 'being disabled'. I have attempted to
find common ground for action between these two groups by interrogating the
experience of being sexual. I argue that heterosexuality functions as a social
matrix, with exclusionary practices that operate in similar ways towards both
groups. Mechanisms may be different, but the experience of exclusion is similar,
and is based on similar practices. This article focuses on specific points in the
exclusionary process, and illustrates similarities.

Links & Downloads

1. Beckett-Wrighton C (2004) Crossing the Border: Locating Heterosexuality as a Boundary for Lesbian Women and Disabled Women. Journal of International Women's Studies. 3(3): 44-52.
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4073

Tags

Heterosexuality

; Disability

; Lesbian

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/4073
Date	January 2004
Creators	Beckett-Wrighton, Clare
Source Sets	Bradford Scholars
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article, No full-text available in the repository
Relation	http://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/jiws/May04/Beckett.pdf