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... their 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...

... , 1989 , 37 - 48 . Benjamin Walter . Illuminations . Ed. and Introduction Hannah Arendt . Trans. Zohn Harry . New York : Schocken Books , 1969 . Borghi Liana . Tenda con vista . Rome : Estro , 1987 . Borghi Liana , et al. “ Italian Lesbians: Maps and Signs...

...: The Limits of Social Constructionism .” Socialist Review 17 . 3-4 ( 1987 ): 9 - 54 . Frye Marilyn . “ Lesbian Feminism and the Gay Rights Movement: Another View of Male Supremacy, Another Separatism .” The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory . Trumansburg, NY : Crossing , 1983...

...Judith Butler Copyright © 1994 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1994 Works Cited Abelove Henry , Barale Michele Aina , and Halperin David M. , eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader . New York : Routledge , 1993...

... is not a monster, but a lover. To Case, "the vampire is the queer in the lesbian mode," whose power enables a fantastically empowered lesbian identity (9). In other words, even if identifying yourself as a bloodsucker can be called self-destructive or fantastic, the bloodsucker can also inhabit, as a figure...

... 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...

.... The Statement specifically argues against contemporaneous moves toward separatism: “Although we are feminists and Lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive Black men and do not advocate the fractionalization...

... apartment, where they are joined by Fabrice and also by Zélie, Boubou’s lesbian sister: “Can I join in, or are you enforcing sexual separat- ism?” asked Zélie, poking her head in the door...

..., “and this induces them to 15 Although it has roots in separat- think that others prevent them ism, this social contract demands from desiring; thus they culti...

..., such as prostitution, criminality, or race suicide. Some feminist politics argued for the full inclusion of women in the body politic on grounds of maternal functions in the domestic economy extended to a public world. Late into the twentieth century, gay and lesbian politics have ironically and critically embraced...