lesbianization

lesbianization

English

Alternative forms

• lesbianisation

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...