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The Lesbian June Cleaver: Heterosexism and Lesbian Mothering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Bonnie Mann
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Abstract

For many of us, entry into motherhood involves an ambiguous visibility and intelligibility, where our acceptance into mainstream spaces as mothers entails a loss of lesbian difference. Mann explores this loss using the work of two philosophers of lesbian difference, Monique Wittig and Judith Butler. She argues that the figure of the lesbian mother is deployed on a broad cultural scale to reinvigorate and renaturaUze the myth of the happy, natural, heterosexual mother.

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Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Writing Against Heterosexism , Winter 2007 , pp. 149 - 165
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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