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‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis
In 1994, the Birmingham based lesbian health activism group LesBeWell began to produce a newsletter titled Dykenosis. Variously describing itself as ‘for women who have sex with women’, ‘health information for dykes’ and ‘the national bi-monthly newsletter about lesbian health’, the newsletter offer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10364968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37492619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016 |
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description | In 1994, the Birmingham based lesbian health activism group LesBeWell began to produce a newsletter titled Dykenosis. Variously describing itself as ‘for women who have sex with women’, ‘health information for dykes’ and ‘the national bi-monthly newsletter about lesbian health’, the newsletter offers a window into how one activist group imagined the health and ill health of women who had sex with women in the 1990s. By analysing Dykenosis, this article illuminates how LesBeWell identified and attempted to eliminate social and institutional obstacles to ‘dyke’ health. The article focuses on Dykenosis’ collation of experiences of invisibility and hypervisibility within Britain’s National Health Service, and the mobilisation of research, complaint, and community self-help within its pages and beyond as remedy to NHS shortcomings. |
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spelling | pubmed-103649682023-07-25 ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis Elizabeth, Hannah J. Contemp Br Hist Research Article In 1994, the Birmingham based lesbian health activism group LesBeWell began to produce a newsletter titled Dykenosis. Variously describing itself as ‘for women who have sex with women’, ‘health information for dykes’ and ‘the national bi-monthly newsletter about lesbian health’, the newsletter offers a window into how one activist group imagined the health and ill health of women who had sex with women in the 1990s. By analysing Dykenosis, this article illuminates how LesBeWell identified and attempted to eliminate social and institutional obstacles to ‘dyke’ health. The article focuses on Dykenosis’ collation of experiences of invisibility and hypervisibility within Britain’s National Health Service, and the mobilisation of research, complaint, and community self-help within its pages and beyond as remedy to NHS shortcomings. Routledge 2023-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10364968/ /pubmed/37492619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016 Text en © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Elizabeth, Hannah J. ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis |
title | ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis |
title_full | ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis |
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title_full_unstemmed | ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis |
title_short | ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis |
title_sort | ‘the wild women of the west (midlands)’: how lesbewell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of dykenosis |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10364968/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37492619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016 |
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