@article {Holmes:2009:0966-369X:77,
title = "Destabilizing homonormativity and the public/private dichotomy in North American lesbian domestic violence discourses",
journal = "Gender, Place and Culture - A Journal of Feminist Geography",
parent_itemid = "infobike://routledg/cgpc",
publishercode ="routledg",
year = "2009",
volume = "16",
number = "1",
publication date ="2009-02-01T00:00:00",
pages = "77-95",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0966-369X",
eissn = "1360-0524",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/cgpc/2009/00000016/00000001/art00006",
doi = "doi:10.1080/09663690802574837",
keyword = "domestic violence, lesbian, public/private, whiteness, homonormativity",
author = "Holmes, Cindy",
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.",
}