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Rhetoric constituting collective identity
Contesting/resisting how collective identities are constructed
Connecting to history of identity discourse
Dominant discourses:
Textual analysis questions (Part I)
• How do the authors define the term "lesbian" and what do they point to for support?
• How does the label "lesbian" function in society and within the women's movement, according to the authors?
• How do you think the label "woman identified woman" might work differently?
Textual analysis (Part II)
Within gay movement:
sexism, racism, & invisibility
Within feminism... homophobia, racism, classism, & invisibility
Within ethnic liberation movements:
sexism, homophobia, & invisibility
Feminist ideological divide:
Liberal feminism
Radical Feminsm
More Layers to WIW
Who gets included?
Who gets excluded?
Contested identity arguments (Tate; Poirot)
Circulation of texts (Jasinski and Mercecia)
Resistance by lesbian-feminists
"I do not want to blend in. My difference is something I want to retain, it is my strength" --Patty Kunitsugu (1977)
Enforcement:
"I know you've heard the slogans: Woman Identified Woman, women who love women, etc., as if we have pledged undying allegiance and love for all women. It is implied that lesbians plead the cause of women as a sex. I am suspicious of these sentiments." Megan Adams (1979)
"Women's liberation, with its energies dedicated to children's day care centers [and] abortion laws . . . could give a damn about the gay community's battles for sex-law repeals, income tax reform, and the dual employment discrimination of female homosexuals" --Sharon Earll (1971)
"It's time we stop kidding ourselves. The straight world will not support us, they mean to kill us; straight women will not support us, they mean to ignore us; gay men will not support us, they mean to imitate us . . . .We are none other than Lesbian-identified-Lesbians, --Betty Peters (1972)
We are Black, we are gay, we are women, we are Black Gay Women. We cannot split ourselves. --Eliandra Henderson (1971)
Being a lesbian makes me stronger, it makes me want to fight all the time. I can walk away from a lot of things, like the trips guys lay on my head, because I'm a lesbian. It gives me some kind of strength over the black female who isn't a lesbian, who caters to that bullshit trip that goes on in the ghetto. --Jeanice Jeanette (1974)
"I am no longer gay. I am a lesbian. 'Gay' is no longer our word. As women-loving-women, proud of who and what we are, we must think of ourselves in strong, proud terms—as Lesbians—with a capital 'L'" --Sharon Crase (1973)