Lesbian Nation was an imagined global community of all lesbian women and a metaphor for self-governance of that community.[1][2][3][4][5] It gave politically active lesbians a sense of belonging and a heroic narrative of independance, in a time when gay liberation was still in its infancy.
Lesbian Nation is a concept of the radical ideology of lesbian feminism and inextricably linked to its main strategy, that of lesbian separatism.[5] The idea originated in the United States and resonated throughout the Anglo-Saxon world, as well as other countries.[6] It was coined in 1971 and had some significance in the rest of the 1970s, but by the mid-1980s the uniformity of it had been proven not to exist.[5]
Main sources edit
- Faderman, Lilian (1991). Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York, New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231074889. OCLC 22906565.
- Stein, Arlene (1997). Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520918313.
- Stein, Arlene (1992). "Sisters and Queers. The Decentering of Lesbian Feminism". Socialist review. 92 (1): 33–55. OCLC 717595842.
References edit
- ^ "Lesbian nation". homosaurus.org. IHLIA LGBTI Heritage. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ Zimmerman, chapter 4.
- ^ Stein (1997), pp. 112-120.
- ^ Sayer, Susan (1 October 1995). "From Lesbian Nation to Queer Nation". Hecate.
- ^ a b c Munt, pp. 4-5.
- ^ Timm, Annette (October 2020). "The Rise and Fall of Lesbian Nation: An Interview with Dr. Lillian Faderman". YouTube. UCalgary Alumni. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
Refs
- Ref Luis
- Luis, Keridwen N. (2018). Herlands: Exploring the Women's Land Movement in the United States. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781452957852.
- Ref Shugar
Shugar, Dana R. (1995). Separatism and Women's Community. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803242449.
- Ref Rio
Del Rio, Chelsea (216). "That Women Could Matter": Building Lesbian Feminism in California, 1955-1982 (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. hdl:2027.42/135777.
- Ref Munt
Munt, Sally (1998). "Sisters in Exile: the Lesbian Nation". New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203019382.
- Refs Faderman
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