The Legacy of the Age Gap as a Decisive Difference in Lesbian Relationships

Anna Maria Sorainen; Joanna Mizielinska

The Legacy of the Age Gap as a Decisive Difference in Lesbian Relationships

Anna Maria Sorainen
, Joanna Mizielinska

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Sammanfattning

Our analytical gaze is on the nuances in power relations to derive info on whether the lesbian age gap is a constant referent in the relationships. Where is it silenced within the relationships, and what are the instances when it suddenly becomes crucial?
The common belief that it is usually the older partner who helps the younger one out economically, or/and perceives the younger as an equivalent of the child in a lesbian relationship is challenged. Focusing on materialised, concrete response on age-related expectations such as care division or will-writing practices, we suggest that the lesbian age gap provides a vital tool for queering assumptions of the choreographies of intergenerational desire.

Originalspråk	engelska
Titel på värdpublikation	Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region and Beyond
Redaktörer	Ulrika Dahl, Joanna Mizielińska, Raili Uibo, Antu Sorainen
Antal sidor	33
Utgivningsort	Huddinge
Förlag	Södertörns Högskola
Utgivningsdatum	19 feb. 2023
Sidor	255-287
ISBN (tryckt)	978-91-89504-20-2
ISBN (elektroniskt)	978-91-89504-21-9
Status	Publicerad - 19 feb. 2023
MoE-publikationstyp	A3 Del av bok eller annan forskningsbok

Publikationsserier

Namn	Södertörn academic studies
Förlag	Södertörns Högskola
Nummer	92
ISSN (tryckt)	1650-433X

Bibliografisk information

Dr. Antu Sorainen, PhD, is Docent in Gender Studies, working as Principal Investigator at the University of Helsinki.
She was the Director of the research team “CoreKin – Contrasting and Re-Imagining Margins of Kinship” (Academy of Finland, 2016-2020). Her current research project focuses o Protolesbian Personal Histories and Nationalist Sentiment in the 1920-30s Finland (The Cultural Foundation of Finland, 2019-2024).
She has conducted empirical studies in queer sexualities, especially in the legal field. She is the co-author of a book on the conceptual history of “Sittlichkeit”, and is publishing on queer kinship and inheritance practices.
Sorainen was an Academy Fellow at the Academy of Finland and the PI of the research project titled “Wills and Inheritance Practices in Sexually Marginalised Groups” (2014-2019).
• Orcid.org/0000-0002-3956-8352

Vetenskapsgrenar

999 Övriga
5141 Sociologi

Åtkomst av dokument

Protolesbian Life History and Nationalist Sentiment in the 1920-30s Finland, a SKR grant research project
Sorainen, A. (Projektledare)
SATY ry
01/09/2019 → 31/07/2024
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt
CoreKin: Contrasting and Re-imagining Margins of Kinship
Sorainen, A. (Projektledare), Härkönen, H. (Deltagare), Moring, A. (Deltagare), Zhabenko, A. (Deltagare), Avdeeva, A. (Deltagare) & Heinonen, A. (Projektledare)
NOS-HS
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2020
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt
Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Area
Sorainen, A. (Deltagare), Dahl, U. (Projektledare) & Mizielinska, J. (Deltagare)
01/01/2015 → 31/12/2017
Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

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Sorainen, A. M., & Mizielinska, J. (2023). The Legacy of the Age Gap as a Decisive Difference in Lesbian Relationships. I U. Dahl, J. Mizielińska, R. Uibo, & A. Sorainen (Red.), Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region and Beyond (s. 255-287). (Södertörn academic studies; Nr. 92). Södertörns Högskola. https://bibl.sh.se/skriftserier/hogskolans_skriftserier/Queerying_Kinship_in_the_Baltic_Region_and_Beyond/diva2_1737329.aspx

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The Legacy of the Age Gap as a Decisive Difference in Lesbian Relationships. / Sorainen, Anna Maria; Mizielinska, Joanna.
Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region and Beyond. red. / Ulrika Dahl; Joanna Mizielińska; Raili Uibo; Antu Sorainen. Huddinge: Södertörns Högskola, 2023. s. 255-287 (Södertörn academic studies; Nr. 92).

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The Legacy of the Age Gap as a Decisive Difference in Lesbian Relationships

Sammanfattning

Publikationsserier

Bibliografisk information

Vetenskapsgrenar

Åtkomst av dokument

Projekt

Protolesbian Life History and Nationalist Sentiment in the 1920-30s Finland, a SKR grant research project

CoreKin: Contrasting and Re-imagining Margins of Kinship

Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Area

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