The Lesbian C Word: repudiation and reversals, recognition and reparation
Channel: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 2018-07-05

Sasha Roseneil, Queering Partnering International Conference (2016)

This paper discusses the paradox of lesbian coupledom captured by the notion of the uncanny as something at one time familiar and strange, desired and uncomfortable, a path for both public visibility and domesticity. A challenge for queering partnering resides on focusing on that which unsettles, the contradictions and complexities, on that which becomes difficult to speak about.