Silenced Resistances and Conflictual Identities
Lesbians in France, 1930-1968
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claudia Lesselier (Centre de Documentation de Recherche et d'Expérimentation sur les Pollutions Accidentelles des Eaux, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 105-125 |
| Publication date | 1993-11-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j082v25n01_08 |
| PMID | 8301074 |
| OpenAlex | W1769565887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Between the publication of Colette's Le pur et l'impur in 1932 and the emergence of lesbian groups in 1970-1971, silence and invisibility seem to have set in a society which remained traditional as far as gender roles and heterosexual norms were concerned. Through studying a few literary works and tapping the lesbian memory by the methods of oral history, however, it is possible to trace some aspects of the lesbian existence during this period and especially to document the key issues of self-definition and resistance in front of the dominant categorizations, stigmatisation and repression. A strong sense of individual legitimacy and claim to happiness stand in sharp contrast to the weakness of collective subcultural constructions; this appears in the ambivalence-as for every minority identity-towards the identification as a group and the word "lesbian" itself. This, being the background of the lesbian movement after 1970, may help one to understand some of its characteristics
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Collective identity · Happiness · Homosexuality · Identity (music · Invisibility · Lesbian · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Resistance (ecology · Silence · Sociology · Transgender · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |