Gandhi Nighat M
J Lesbian Stud. 2012;16(4):468-84. doi: 10.1080/21604851.2012.681616.
This article focuses on conversations the author had with a middle-class, urban, working Muslim lesbian and her partner in Karachi, Pakistan. The couple discuss their lives within the framework of Islamic culture of South Asia. The author attempts to explore how women-loving- women define and construct knowledge about their sexuality, about non-normative forms of sexual relations/preferences, and how they negotiate the imagined and real restrictions placed on their sexuality by religion, society, and family, and the impact of such control mechanisms on women's health and emotional well-being, mobility, education, livelihood, sexual behaviors, and expression of desire.
本文聚焦于作者与一位生活在巴基斯坦卡拉奇的中产阶级、城市职业穆斯林女同性恋者及其伴侣的对话。这对伴侣在南亚伊斯兰文化的框架内讨论了她们的生活。作者试图探究爱女性的女性如何界定和构建关于自身性取向、非规范性关系/性偏好的认知，以及她们如何应对宗教、社会和家庭对其性取向所施加的想象中的和实际存在的限制，以及这种控制机制对女性健康、情感幸福、行动能力、教育、生计、性行为和欲望表达的影响。
