TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Destabilizing homonormativity and the public/private dichotomy in North American lesbian domestic violence discourses
JO  - Gender, place and culture
A1  - Holmes, Cindy
SP  - 77
EP  - 95
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 0966-369X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09663690802574837
ID  - ref1
ER  -