Silence, Death, and D/discourse
Critical Literary Practices With Lesbian Seniors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12458596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Robson (0000-0002-5983-0346, Simon Fraser University, corresponding author), Dennis Sumara (University of Calgary) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-34 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10894160.2015.972301 |
| PMID | 25575319 |
| OpenAlex | W2024399968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article reports on a federally funded research project in which old lesbians were invited to separate out and examine the complicated strands of lives lived through times of great social change-times in which notions of "woman," "sexuality," and "subjectivity" have been both over- and under-determined by dominant discourse (Stein, 1997). We argue, with Haug (1992), that close attention to the personal is central to critical feminist perspectives and that writers can become more aware of normalizing cultural influences when they pay close attention to language. In this article, we support our position with a case study of one participant in our "language school" (Haug, 1992). As we analyzed her written life narratives and oral testimony, we conclude that she was able to reconsider comfortable "coming out" narratives in order to construct new meaning and to challenge her understandings of the past
Aesthetics · Construct (python library · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Political science · Privilege (computing · Silence · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |