Doing Beauty

Negotiating Lesbian Looks in Everyday Life

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12458676
AutoresTania Hammidi (autor de correspondencia), Tania N Hammidi, Susan Kaiser (0000-0002-2081-7734), Susan B Kaiser (0000-0002-6031-5157, University of California, Davis)
Año1999
Volumen3
Número4
Páginas55-63
Fecha de publicación1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j155v03n04_07
PMID24786425
OpenAlexW2335396187
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas1

Beauty is often formulated as a singular image, system, or narrative. Missing in these formulations are conceptualizations of personal desire, agency, and affiliation with community aesthetics. The following essay seeks to "complicate" current understandings of beauty -understandings that implicitly assume heterosexuality -by focusing on how lesbians do beauty to negotiate within and across four discourses. These discourses, we argue, function like cultural conversations that include verbal and visual messages, individual acts and media images, and dominant and community looks. Lesbians negotiate mixed responses to these discourses, in part, through lesbian styling. In the process, lesbianrs' assertions of agency allow for a reclaiming of beauty. To illustrate the ways lesbians re-frame and reclaim beauty in everyday life, we rely upon the voices and experiences of lesbians from Northern California

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Beauty · Lesbian · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Queer · Social science · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology