Lesbians and the right to equality: Perceptions of people in a local Western Cape community

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dc.contributor.advisorClowes, Lindsay
dc.contributor.authorSanger, Nadia
dc.contributor.otherWomen and Gender Studies
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Arts
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-07T12:31:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-02T07:52:55Z
dc.date.available2007/04/30 10:50
dc.date.available2007/04/30
dc.date.available2013-08-07T12:31:18Z
dc.date.available2024-04-02T07:52:55Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractWhen lesbians, as women divert from social norms and reject the compulsory heterosexual norm, they are either punished through legal systems for transgressing patriarchial structures or not recognised at all. As women, lesbians suffer at the hands of a homophobic society which believs that women have stepped out of line through challenging the hegemonic discourses stipulating that they have specific and distinct roles to play - that of wives, mothers, homemakers and sexual partners to men. Because lesbians do not fit into this construct, their behaviour is socially and legally condemned for diverting from the "natural order". This study aimed to identify and explore the various ways people construct and perceive lesbians and to reveal how sexuality, as a product of history and culture, determines the ways lesbians are treated in their own communities. This study attempted to explore how, despite the democratic stance of the new constitution, South African lesbians still experience discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/10263
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectLesbiansen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectMitchell's Plainen_US
dc.subjectLesbianismen_US
dc.subjectPsychological aspectsen_US
dc.subjectHomosexualityen_US
dc.subjectHomophobiaen_US
dc.titleLesbians and the right to equality: Perceptions of people in a local Western Cape communityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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