@article{ref1,
title="Destabilizing homonormativity and the public/private dichotomy in North American lesbian domestic violence discourses",
journal="Gender, place and culture",
year="2009",
author="Holmes, Cindy",
volume="16",
number="1",
pages="77-95",
abstract="Developing and circulating community-based educational materials and offering workshops are common feminist approaches to addressing violence in lesbian relationships. This article explores the racialized exclusions in the public/private dichotomy in community-based educational discourses about ‘lesbian domestic violence’. An examination of community-based educational materials and interviews with lesbian and queer feminist educators illustrates how the public/private dichotomy produces exclusions and makes certain forms of violence enacted on certain bodies unthinkable and unintelligible. While these discourses challenge heteronormative constructions of violence, they have relied on a simple conceptual framework that has had the effect of promoting a dominant narrative or regime of truth privileging white, middle-class lesbian experiences. This article seeks to destabilize homonormative constructions by arguing for an anti-colonial feminist spatial analysis of violence in same-sex/gender relationships.<p />",
language="",
issn="0966-369X",
doi="10.1080/09663690802574837",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09663690802574837"
}