... theories of bad sex. By taking bad sex as the model for women’s oppression, seventies feminists crafted a culturalist theory of patriarchy logically culminating in lesbian separatism. This theory, while containing the essence of all feminisms, proved unactionable: feminism could not outlaw women’s stubborn...

... toward us in a group of three, much shorter than the others, covered entirely in coat. I had seen Eve Sedgwick once, the year before, at a conference that Tom and I attended at Yale when her session erupted in a contested shout-out about her identity. 1 Are you a lesbian? Audience members demanded to...

....'” Interview with Eric Lamien. Papiers d'identité . 37 –41. ———. Réflexions sur la question gay . Paris: Fayard, 1999 . Fillieule, Olivier, and Jan Willem Duyvendak. “Gay and Lesbian Activism in France: Between Integration and Community-Oriented Movements.” The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian...

... separatism: “Although we are feminists and Lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive Black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand” (12). By capitalizing key...