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lesbianization en · NOUN

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Etymology

From lesbian + -ization.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act, process or result of lesbianizing.
   • 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. 1999, Alicia Arrizón, Latina performance: traversing the stage:
   • Curiously, this lesbianization of the family is shadowed by a wistful romanticization of the very Chicano patriarch Moraga critiques throughout her book... 2002, Teresa Hubel, Neil Edward Brooks, Literature and racial ambiguity:
   • 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. 1996, Sarah Oerton, Beyond hierarchy: gender, sexuality, and the social economy:

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