Lesbians’ embodied and imagined homes: ‘It’s an internal journey’

Abstract

This article explores how nine lesbian women in Australia embody and imagine ‘home’. Using visual methodology, each woman was invited to bring along an artefact and tell a story about how it represents home for her. The methods for producing the data involved a focus group and individual interviews. Following a school of thought known as the sociology of emotions, the data were analysed for insights connected to participants’ emotions. The study highlights the importance of the internal journey in how these women primarily embody and imagine home.