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By Shane Phelan

"Lesbian feminism begun and has fueled itself with the rejection of liberalism.... during this rejection, lesbian feminists weren't on my own. They have been joined through the hot Left, via many blacks within the civil rights flow, by means of male educational theorists.... What a lot of these teams shared was once an excessive expertise of the ways that liberalism fails to account for the social truth of the area, via a reliance upon legislation and criminal constitution to outline club, via individualism, via its foundation in a selected perception of rationality." In tracing how lesbian feminism got here to be outlined in uneasy relationships with the Women’s flow and homosexual rights teams, Shane Phelan explores the strain among liberal beliefs of person rights and tolerance and communitarian beliefs of unity. the controversy over lesbian sado-masochism—an expression of person selection or pornographic, anti-feminist behavior?—is regarded as a attempt case. Phelan addresses the issues confronted by way of "the woman-identified girl" in a liberal society that presumes heterosexuality because the organic, mental, and ethical commonplace. usually silenced by way of legislation defining their sexual habit as felony and censured by means of a clinical institution that persists in defining homosexuality as perversion, lesbians, like blacks and different teams, have fought to have a similar rights as others of their groups or even of their personal houses. Lesbian feminists have additionally sought to outline themselves as a neighborhood that will be incredibly varied, a group that will disavow the normal American obsession with person development on the planet because it is. during this debatable examine of political philosophy and the women’s move, Phelan argues that "the failure so far to provide a lovely concept and software for lesbian motion is reflective of the failure of recent political pondering to supply a compelling, nonsuspect substitute to liberalism."

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Even in what Alison Jaggar labels "psychologically based accounts" of en's oppression that were struggle against its And in The lesbianism. individualism. practitioners, the psychological under- official standing remains strongly embedded in this earliest, bold account of using this discourse, lesbians remain lesbian is somehow bound She acts, instead, from "her inner compulsion more complete and freer being than society cares to allow cept in her rage. a . She is uality, to not socially constituted, ex- .

Aware of the presence and effectiveness of "queer-baiting" in the women's movement; such baiting was what had given rise to the "lavender menace" argument in the first place. Most recently, Time magazine had attacked Kate Millett when she announced her bisexuality, suggesting that this admission discredited her as a spokesperson for the women's movement. " 8 . . " 9 Attacks such as those of Time served two purposes: they increased public suspicion and dislike of feminists, and they kept feminists divided bians ated among themselves, with straight women fearful lest the les- make them "look bad," while lesbians became angry and alienfrom the women's movement.

If I was honest about When they met their men at the door with kisses, that was normal. They were willing to accept my lesbianism only if it was secreted and viewed as minor to my life. They kept telling me it didn't make any difference who personally loved. But my lesbian relationship, was I flagrant. I I knew it made a tremendous difference. was beginning I to get the feeling that lesbianism was of crucial importance to feminism. Other- wise, why was being oppressed men and women. 5 I so much for it, why was it so threaten- ing to both The second problem was that many treated as prospective sexual partners lesbians found themselves and instructors by were simply curious about homosexuality and hoped without commitments or attachments.

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