“Dolls or teddies?”: constructing lesbian identity through community-specific practice.

The concept of ‘community’ often presents a problem for queer linguists. ‘The gay community’ is often viewed as an impossible site for research due to its imagined status, whilst local communities of gay people have been considered too heterogeneous and idiosyncratic to draw conclusions from. In th...

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Main Author: Jones, Lucy
Format: Article
Published: John Benjamins Publishing 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29759/