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Dissertation Information for Linda D. Wayne

NAME:
- Linda D. Wayne

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Women's Studies

SCHOOL:
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (USA) (2005)

ADVISORS:
- Paula Rabinowitz
- Walter O. Bockting

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Ambiguous

Title: Redefining deviance: Sexological categories and exclusion in the gay, lesbian, and women's liberation movements

Abstract: Why were sexual minorities excluded from the liberation movements that struggled against sex, gender, and sexual oppression? The answer lies in an examination of the normative value system that was authorized as science by "first wave" sexologists (ca. 1885). Sexological categorizations were used to privilege heterosexual men and rationalize the exclusion of sexual aberrants such as gender inverts. Written entirely in gender neutral pronouns, my work interrogates the way that sexologists' stigmatization of sex variants influenced gay, lesbian, women's liberation and women's rights organizers. Radical women contested the acceptance of male-centered norms while gay agitators argued that homosexuality was as natural as heterosexuality. These liberation and rights movements reconfigured traditional norms in politically strategic ways to gain equitable treatment for gays, lesbians, and women. Although they rejected early sexologist's claims, these movements used notions of deviance and pathology to draw a boundary between the new norms expressed in their equitable vision and the oppressive practices they struggled against. However, because these movements failed to question the negative values inherent in the concept of deviance, sex variants not only remained demonized but were cast among the oppressors within liberation rhetoric. In response, I highlight analyses produced by "second wave" sexologists and "sex variant" authors who contested accepted categories of deviance and the reconfiguration of normative values espoused within liberation movements. I conclude by describing how the addition of "sex variant" analyses to feminist and gay/lesbian studies could catalyze the transition toward the ideal of inclusion proposed by third wave feminists.

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