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BOOK REVIEWS The Social Construction of Lesbianism. Celia New- By Kitzinger. CA: 230 Park, 1987, $29.95 $16.50 bury (hardbound), Sage, pp., (paperback). This book current research that lesbianism in lib- critiques presents eral humanistic terms as an alternative a of a lifestyle, way loving, sexual a route to or a form of self- fulfillment, preference, personal actualization. to the this so-called author, According gay-affirming research is not not a it a new force, only liberating actually represents in the of lesbians. The shift from a development oppression patholog- ical to an affirmative model has substituted one con- depoliticized struction of lesbianism for another. Such constructions the ignore of lesbianism as a orientation significance fundamentally political the of women male representing bonding against supremacy. The recent social science research reviewed in this book has from a liberal humanistic that emerged ideology although ostensibly of women from male lesbianism, supportive prevents recognizing and their own The book is an excellent of power oppression. example the new wave of feminist from France, writing, primarily England, and that to and to deconstruct the liberal Canada, attempts identify humanistic that is so the social sci- ideology pervasive throughout in sex and research. ences, particularly
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE
Published: Jul 1, 1990
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