What therefore discourse has joined together

Sexuality, Performativity and Everyday Use of Public Spaces

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3977276
AutoresRuth Preser (0000-0002-7764-3181, Tel Hai Academic College, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume22
Fascículo1
Páginas58-75
Data de publicação2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2018.1550805
OpenAlexW2903401946
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas42

This paper explores lesbian intimacy and the conditions for being public. It traces the performative effects of coupledom and argues that intimacy is understood, performed and experienced against the backdrop and in response to prevailing discourses of tolerance which regulate the public sphere. Employing Wendy Brown's discussion of liberal tolerance and Eve Sedgwick's concept of periperformativity, the paper addresses the performative effects of doing lesbian intimacy in the Israeli context. Instead of reading the public sphere through a somewhat polarized interpretative mode of heteronormative vs. antinormative, oppressive vs. liberating or abstract vs. lived, the paper traces the labor of love and the doing of kinship under the toll of becoming worthy of tolerance

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Kinship · Lesbian · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Reading (process · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy