Search Results for lesbian separatism

...C. Heike Schotten Abstract This article traces the emergence of what the author calls predation TERFism to the development of US Jewish-identified feminism and, in particular, Zionist lesbian separatism. This historical connection is reflected in the rhetorical and ideological similarities between...

..., societal change. TMB: Your politics have always been more coalition building. Perhaps more pragmatic in that sense? JC: Well, there was a controversy over feminism and whether lesbian separatism was to be the dominant discourse. Even though lesbian separatism espoused the same kind of politics...

... was not limited to New York. Elliott's experience demonstrates that lesbian separatism as a political tactic was attractive to trans women, just as her ouster demonstrates the tactic's improper execution by trans misogynists. In her 2011 memoir ( Nettick and Elliott 2011 : vii), Beth Elliott reflects back on her...

...—i.e., their biological maleness—that makes them what they are. As Black women we find any type of biological determinism a particularly dangerous and reactionary basis upon which to build a politic. We must also question whether Lesbian separatism is an adequate and progressive political analysis...

... because it brings together the best of the analytical innovations from the international Wages for Housework Campaign and MacKinnon's analysis of heterosexuality. Wages Due Lesbians framed their struggle as working toward autonomy rather than separatism. They avoided the kind of separatism of issues...

... lesbianisms are invested in whiteness, then queer feminists must become comfortable positioning some feminists—even queer ones—as their enemies. With reference to minoritarian sections of the archive of early twentieth-century British lesbian suffragism and, equally, of 1970s US lesbian separatism (both...

... with the formulation of lesbian separatism as a praxis engaged by “woman-loving women” (Radicalesbians 1970 ) to invent modes of life beyond the stranglehold of interlocking (male, heterosexual, white) supremacies. T4t emerges from a recognition that trans subjects, too, might benefit from a severing of ties...

... . Particularly after the 1980s, the plural signifier women is political rather than biological. The hybridization of the universal subject has assumed various forms according to the corresponding conceptualizations, moving through Monique Wittig's lesbian(-no-woman), Gloria Anzaldúa's mestiza, Donna Haraway's...

...Blase A. Provitola Abstract French lesbian author and theorist Monique Wittig's early contestations of woman as the subject of feminism have played an important role in gender studies in both anglophone and francophone spaces. Since the mid-1990s, French lesbian studies scholars and queer theorists...

... of breaking the menstrual taboo. Although contemporary spiritualities present themselves as nonhierarchical and gender equal, spirituality and well-being in the women's circles is predominantly practiced by cisgender, heterosexual, and white middle-class women, excluding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender...

... authors quoted in these Christian texts frequently argue elsewhere for the proliferation of lesbianism, the destruction of patriarchal foundations in society and in Christianity specifically, and for the dissolution of hierarchical family formations. Clearly, these goals are at odds with evangelical...

... prompted these donations. For instance, in early June the New York City–based organization GLITS (Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society), headed by Ceyenne Doroshow, raised over $1 million USD in about a week. This unprecedented—and unexpected—outpouring enabled Doroshow to purchase an eleven...