By Tamsin Wilton
Neither women's reviews nor lesbian and homosexual experiences bargains an enough theoretical or political base for lesbian scholarship. Lesbian stories: environment and time table target to advertise lesbian experiences as an educational and political method of either gender and the erotic, and to explain the dangerous impression of heterosexism throughout various disciplines. Drawing on feminism and queer idea, Tamsin Wilton argues that `lesbian' is a theoretical place which has to be commonly to be had with a purpose to problem the dominance of the heterosexual viewpoint. attractive with theoretical and political debates, the publication strikes past its position of environment an schedule for lesbian reviews right into a wider function as source and catalysts for a person drawn to gender and the erotic.
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What Queer neglects to recognise is the significance of heteropolarity in maintaining male power. The traditional penis-deprivation model, expressed in the following passages from male writers, reveals with somewhat touching clarity the not-so-hidden agenda of male anxiety and the desperate need to colonise lesbianism for phallocentrism. 2 There is no doubt that for women who, for whatever reason, have been unable to get married, a homosexual partnership may be a happier way of life than a frustrated loneliness, but this is not to say that it can ever fully satisfy.
Not only is the taxonomic vocabulary of sexualities (heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian) a recent invention but, in the coining of the words, the creatures themselves were born. Lillian Faderman is in no doubt that sexologists did not merely describe a pre-existing entity— ‘the lesbian’—but enabled her to self-define, to organise with others into groups, to exist as a social being and to develop a lesbian subjectivity (Faderman 1981, 1991). Once the social role—the label—is available, it What is a lesbian?
4… How did the heteros get picked out? (Gergen in Kitzinger and Wilkinson 1993:62) Heterosexuality has remained almost totally untheorised and unnamed, precisely because of its staus as norm. The anxiety with which the contributors to the special issue distanced themselves from the label and strove to reassert their specialness, their ontological slipperiness, offers a glimpse into the struggles over naming, privilege and identity from a new and revealing vantage point. A radical deconstructionist/post-structuralist position insists that ‘lesbian’ is a sign as amorphous and shifting as any other, bearing at any one time the multiple and contradictory sets of meanings available for encoding in a particular historical/cultural context.
