Locating heterosexuality as a boundary for lesbian and disabled women
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Journal of International Women's Studies
- Magazine Year
- 2004
- Magazine Number
- 3
- Creator
- Beckett, Clare
- Thesaurus
- gehandicapten, lesbische vrouwen, heteroseksualiteit, gender, onderzoek
- Description
- According to the author both disabled women and non-heterosexual women are disadvantaged by mechanisms of heterosexuality, as well as by mechanisms of gender. In this sense, heterosexuality becomes the sphere of the normal. Not to be part of that sphere is to be powerless and dependant. This article draws on personal experience, and on the separate experiences of 'leaving heterosexuality' and of 'being disabled'.