Sex, Gender, and Identity: A Response to Christine Overall

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  • Barbara Houston University of Western Ontario

Abstract

In this paper, I focus on two issues which lurk behind much feminist discussion of ascriptions of sexual orientation: (1) the relation between sexual orientation and gender, and (2) the relations between ascriptions of sexual orientation and ascriptions of sexual identity. In particular, I argue that once we attend to the distinction between sexual orientation and sexual identity it becomes clear that the self-acknowledgement interpretation, at least for the sexual orientation lesbian, has the theoretical and empirical justification most consistent with a feminist perspective.

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Published

1988-04-01

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (1988)

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Original Research

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