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Kal Alston Giorgio, Grace Ann 2015-09-28T16:04:43Z 2015-09-28T16:04:43Z 10000-01-01 2001 2001 This dissertation responds to these concerns by investigating the dissonance between the lived experience of lesbian battering and the dominant domestic violence discourses. The work's title describes the underlying power of utopic understandings of lesbian relationships as articulated by the vestiges of lesbian-feminist philosophy that permeate the multiple sites of power relations in domestic violence contexts. Each chapter addresses these contexts as sites of negotiation for battered lesbians whose narratives of abuse indicate vast injustices from traditional support systems and their own communities. Throughout the dissertation, I argue that battered lesbians traverse complex networks of power relations, which they also resist in individually private as well as expressly public ways. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T16:04:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3023063.pdf: 15131500 bytes, checksum: 68954ab9d60ace1536f4b414ea130044 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2001 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88781 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 311 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87500 (MiAaPQ)AAI3023063 eng Sociology, Criminology and Penology Contesting the Utopia: Power and Resistance in Abusive Lesbian Relationships text Ph.D. Speech Communication Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation