@article{Westbrook_2010, place={Washington DC: American Sociological Association.}, title={DOING GENDER, DOING SEXUALITY: LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER AND QUEER WOMEN’S SEXUAL CULTURES IN THE UNITED STATESWOMEN’S SEXUAL CULTURES IN THE UNITED STATES}, url={https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/doing-gender-doing-sexuality-lesbian-bisexual}, abstractNote={This course explores the construction of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (LBTQ) women’s contemporary sexual cultures. With this course I hope to provide students with an understanding of intersections of non-dominant gender identities and sexual orientations as well as an understanding of current cultural configurations as constructed, rather than permanent or natural. The course opens with theories about the construction of sexuality. It then moves on to LBTQ women’s writings about the construction of heterosexuality. Finally, it explores many types of LBTQ women’s sexual cultures in the United States. I will work to highlight diversity within the categories of LBTQ women as well as to denaturalize those categories. The "take home" from the course will be that the social categories of sexual orientation and womanhood are both culturally constructed as well as real, lived experiences for the people who have lived inside those categories.}, journal={TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology}, author={Westbrook, Laurel}, year={2010}, month={Apr.} }