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

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/4073
Date January 2004
CreatorsBeckett-Wrighton, Clare
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, No full-text available in the repository
Relationhttp://www.bridgew.edu/SoAS/jiws/May04/Beckett.pdf

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