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The lie [of compulsory female heterosexuality] is many-layered. In Western tradition, one layer—the ...

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Woman-identification is a source of energy, a potential springhead of female power, violently curtai...

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I have chosen to use the terms lesbian existence and lesbian continuum because the word lesbianism h...

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Adrienne RichCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

The effect of male-identification means ‘internalizing the values of the colonizer and actively part...

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Adrienne RichCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence