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Lesbian feminism, 2, American writer, feminist and LGBT rights activist.
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Lesbian feminism
History
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A movement that emerged from the previous one as a result of dissatisfaction with the second wave feminist and gay movement in the early 1970s.
These communities were created at a time when being homosexual was believed to be a mental disorder and a threat to the wellbeing of society.
In 1955 a women's group called the "Daughter of Bilis " was created with the aim of ending the marginalisation felt by many lesbians, educating homosexual women about their legal rights and increasing their social acceptance.
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In the second wave of the 1960s, lesbians played a prominent role in many of the new feminist organizations, helping to organise for equality in the workplace, the home and the courts.
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During this period, Betty Friedan, founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), famously called lesbians a "lavender menace". She claimed that they threatened to tarnish the reputation of the feminist movement, driving women away for fear of being associated with it.They felt excluded by feminist organizations but also by gay rights organizations.
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Feminist lesbians responded by forming their own organizations to transform shame into pride and challenge the belief that equated lesbianism with deviance.
Prior to the 1960s in urban areas of the United States, gay and lesbian communities were created clandestinely.
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Critricism
Tensions with feminism
It has been argued that feminism has become homophobic in its failure to integrate sexuality as a fundamental category of gender concern, and in its treatment of lesbianism as a separate and unrelated issue.
Tension with Queer teory
Many intellectuals argue that if they are not lesbian feminists, then they are lesbians, feminists and seek answers to questions about their gender and sexuality in order to label themselves as such.
Key concepts
- Queer theory
- Sexual identities
- heteronormativity.
the feminist ideology since in the end for lesbian feminists they have had something of what they have achieved and they think that their needs in the end are not fully supported by many feminist groups today
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- American writer, feminist and LGBT rights activist.
- Founding member of the lesbian feminist journal The Furies Collective.
- American poet, intellectual and activist.
- Her poetry has inspired the struggle of both American and Latin American feminists.
- African-American writer, feminist and activist.
- Her project "The Sister, the Foreigner" is a collection of essays on racism, male chauvinism and heterosexual oppression.
- American philosopher and radical feminist theorist
- Her writings offer debates on feminist issues such as white supremacy, male privilege and discrimination against gays and lesbians.
- American philosopher, radical feminist, scholar and theologian at Boston College.
- She violated university rules by not accepting male students in her women's studies classes.
- Influence on lesbian feminism and political science professor
- Her positions attack gender roles, the influence of gay men on lesbian culture and masochism.
- French writer and lesbian feminist activist
- Advocated that sex was a social category and not a natural or biological one.
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