Homosexuality as a Psychological Problem in "Am I a Feminist or a Womanist" by Staceyann Chinn
Zainab Salahaddin Hussein
English department/ College of Language and Human Sciences/ University of Garmian
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.2.3.6
Keywords: - homosexuality - Islamic societies - biological and psychological factors
Abstract
Recently, homosexuality has become a very widespread phenomenon in the world even in the eastern Islamic societies though it is considered a forbidden behavior. It is, therefore, necessary to search behind this problem. The current paper aims at exploring the socio-political aspect of poetry as related to the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) community. The analysis will be conducted through the poem "A Feminist or a Womanist" by Stacey Ann Chinn which is actually a warning against such approaches. Namely, she does so by developing the poem over an imaginary conversation with another woman who is asking her about her lesbianism. So, as she is being asked in a manner that she finds offensive, she replies to the imaginary conversation partner that she is not asking the right questions. She considered that the issue is not about being lesbian but about being a woman. She basically projects the idea that the problem is in
