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Aletheia

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Abstract

PALMA, Yáskara Arrial; PIASON, Aline da Silva; BEZERRA, Ana Cláudia Menini  and  STREY, Marlene Neves. Experiences of life and the process of social visibility of women who loves women. Aletheia [online]. 2010, n.33, pp. 18-29. ISSN 1413-0394.

The present study presents a reflection concerning two researches that have had as an aim, a way of knowing the processes of recognizing the life experiences of women who love women, and more specifically to know the perception of these women in relation to their sexual orientation and encountering visibility or invisibility of the sexual orientation in family and society. Both researches have had a qualitative delimitation, differing from each other in the way of data analysis. The participants of the studies were eight women, who identify themselves as lesbians, with ages between 22 and 44 years old, living at the suburb of the state, Rio Grande do Sul and six women with ages between 22 and 33 years old, from the inner city, totaling 14 interviewees. To take part on the corpus of the study, the interviews were taped and transcribed for the analyses, on the first study it was used the method of discourse analyses, and the second the method of content analyses. The results show that at the country side and at the capital, the experiences of these women are similar, and show that apart from having a social change at the ways of thinking and perceiving female homosexuality, it still is a slow and gradual process. From a gender studies point of view, it is considered that society still is predominantly heterosexist and patriarchal, needing to enlarge its spaces for the expression of diversity and investment in efforts to a change of paradigms.

Keywords : Gender; Lesbians; Family.

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