Lesbian Existence and the Challenge to Normative Constructions of the Academy.

Bensimon, Estela Mara

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ERIC Number: EJ475296

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Publication Date: 1992

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Lesbian Existence and the Challenge to Normative Constructions of the Academy.

Bensimon, Estela Mara

Journal of Education, v174 n3 p98-113 1992

Argues that maintaining a distinction between public and private spheres of behavior can obscure the inequities experienced by lesbian and gay persons in the public sphere of academia. How distorted logic supports the public/private dichotomy is demonstrated through interviews of a lesbian faculty member. (SLD)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Faculty, Equal Protection, Females, Higher Education, Homosexuality, Interviews, Lesbianism, Sex Bias, Social Attitudes, Social Discrimination

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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