lesbianization

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

lesbian +‎ -ization

Noun

lesbianization (uncountable)

  1. The act, process or result of lesbianizing.
    • 1999, Alicia Arrizón, Latina performance: traversing the stage:
      She uses the work of Cherrie Moraga, Ester Hernandez, and Marcia Ochoa to talk about cultural productions and the lesbianization of the heterosexual icons of popular culture.
    • 1996, Sarah Oerton, Beyond hierarchy: gender, sexuality, and the social economy:
      Such lesbianization is discursively imputed to those flatter organizations which are women-only, and as a result they are routinely constituted as suspect and stigmatized.
    • 2002, Teresa Hubel, Neil Edward Brooks, Literature and racial ambiguity:
      Curiously, this lesbianization of the family is shadowed by a wistful romanticization of the very Chicano patriarch Moraga critiques throughout her book...