Women Crossing the Boundaries: An Exploration the Coming out of the Closet of Midlife Women

Abstract

This study explores how midlife women crossing boundaries by coming out of the closet. It is concerned with providing empirical evidence of exploring in midlife women's constitution of their sexual subjectivities. It reveals the subjectivity of these women in terms of challenging the heteronormativity in relation to the practice of ‘coming out of the closet’. With the lens of a feminist post-structuralism, the subjectivity is not fixed nor unified. Accordingly, they constitute themselves and produce the desired practice to cross the boundary of heteronormativity and represent their sexualities to public arena.