Lesbian Visibility Politics in Manchester’s LGBTQ+ Spaces
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Beschreibung
“Lesbian lives and spaces are overlooked and ignored. This much needed and engaging book foregrounds lesbians in ways that recognise the complexities and power relations that are gendered in multiple ways. The book challenges the assumed sameness of lesbians and gay men that occludes gendered differentials that remain entrenched within and beyond LGBTQIA+ spaces. This is an important book in challenging and developing new understanding and a must read for all interested in social lives, power relationships and spatialities.”
—Kath Browne (MRIA), Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland
“This book provides a compelling account of the politics of lesbian visibility and the complex terrain of LGBTQ+ space. Drawing on empirical research in Manchester UK, and adopting an intersectional feminist standpoint, Lesbian Visibility Politics in Manchester’s LGBTQ+ Spaces challenges the normalisation of lesbians as ‘invisible’ by giving voice to their lived experiences. It offers a thoughtful and nuanced account of different lesbian sexual identities on the scene and unique understandings of how alternative spaces are created, utilised and contested. By developing the concepts of ‘the lesbian visibility hierarchy’ and ‘homopatriarchy’ Jess Mancuso provides original insights into how power operates in LGBT+ communities and importantly highlights lesbians’ ongoing struggles for recognition. This book is an excellent resource for students of sociology, geography, queer studies and gender studies.”
—Gill Valentine, FBA, FAcSS, FRGS, School of Geography & Planning, University of Sheffield, UK
This book centres lesbian lives and perspectives to provide novel understandings of LGBTQ+ research, culture, and society, showing that understandings of these issues are often distorted by an androcentric approach to knowledge production. In addition to providing fresh empirical insight into the politics of LGBTQ+ spaces, the book also provides a commentary on the limiting consequences of not adequately incorporating women’s experiences into research and provides new insights into the shaping of (in)visibility and belonging in LGBTQ+ social spaces.
Dr Jess Mancuso is a Sociology Lecturer at The University of Manchester, UK, with a research focus in the field of gender and sexuality.
This book centres lesbian lives and perspectives to provide novel understandings of LGBTQ+ research, culture, and society, showing that understandings of these issues are often distorted by an androcentric approach to knowledge production. In addition to providing fresh empirical insight into the politics of LGBTQ+ spaces, the book also provides a commentary on the limiting consequences of not adequately incorporating women’s experiences into research and provides new insights into the shaping of (in)visibility and belonging in LGBTQ+ social spaces.
Centers around lesbian lives, which are often overlooked for the experiences of gay men Provides two new concepts about LGBTQ+ power dynamics: Lesbian Visibility Hierarchy and Homopatriarchy Shows that centring women’s standpoints shed new light on theories of visibility, belonging and power
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Jess Mancuso
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