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Soviet medicalization of homosexuality in Lithuanian lesbian oral history narratives

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12459204
AutoresRasa Navickaitė (0000-0002-3366-4183, Vilnius University, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas192-210
Data de publicação2025-04-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10894160.2025.2485564
PMID40265699
OpenAlexW4409699305
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas16

Based on oral history narratives and original archival research, this article discusses how the Soviet medicalization of homosexuality has affected the self-identification of queer women and how it currently features in the narratives that lesbians tell about themselves in post-Soviet Lithuania. The article shows that the medicalization of homosexuality in Soviet Lithuania was inseparable from the broader pressures of Communist morality, which aimed to guide the private lives of individuals, and that the pathologizing of female homosexuality was tightly interrelated with the social pressure on women to fit into their gender role and adapt to the frameworks of femininity. The article also reflects on how the medicalization of homosexuality, as imposed by Soviet modernity, continues to be felt in the region and how it affects the current state of the LGBTQ community

Art · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Literature · Lithuanian · Male Homosexuality · Medicalization · Narrative · Oral history · Psychiatry · Sexology · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Syphilis · Anthropology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German History and Society · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology