Abstract
Many gender scholars have abandoned the notion that we can explore women's experiences without attention to other identities such as race, class, and/or sexual orientation. Until now, the ways race influences the development of sexual selves has been underexplored. In this paper, I focus on heterosexual women's accounts of the interplay of race, gender, and sexualities. Based on in-depth interviews with sixty-two white and African American heterosexual women between the ages of twenty and sixty-eight, I examine the ways in which narrative work tells a story about the presentation of public sexual selves. I also explore how women's personal narratives are impacted by larger cultural narratives about race. Specifically, through a study of sexuality, I focus on the social construction of “postracialism.”.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 83-99 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Symbolic Interaction |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1 2018 |
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“The Way That I Look at Things [Is] Different Because It's Me” : Constructing and Deconstructing Narratives About Racialized Sexual Selves. / Montemurro, Elizabeth.
In: Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 41, No. 1, 01.02.2018, p. 83-99.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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