Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence (1980)

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 11-48

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EID: 33745482098     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0079     Document Type: Editorial

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2. Beth Brant, ed., A Gathering of Spirit: Writing and Art by North American Indian Women (Montpelier, Vt.: Sinister Wisdom Books, 1984);
3. J.R. Roberts, Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography (Tallahassee, Fla.: Naiad, 1981);
4. Barbara Smith, ed., Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Albany, N.Y: Kitchen Table/ Women of Color Press, 1984).
5. Alice Bloch, Lifetime Guarantee (Watertown, Mass.; Persephone, 1982);
6. and Melanie Kaye-Kantrowitz and Irena Klepfisz, eds., The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women's Anthology (Montpelier, Vt.: Sinister Wisdom Books, 1986).
7. Alice Rossi, "Children and Work in the Lives of Women," paper delivered at the University of Arizona, Tucson, February 1976.
8. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook, 1962 (New York: Bantam, 1977), p.480.
9. Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978);
10. Dorothy Dinnerstein, The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and the Human Malaise (New York: Harper & Row, 1976):
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12. Jean Baker Miller, Toward a New Psychology of Women (Boston: Beacon, 1976).
13. Gerda Lerner, ed., The Female Experience: An American Documentary (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), contains an abridgement of two lesbian-feminist-position papers from the contemporary movement but no other documentation of lesbian existence.
14. Jonathan Katz, ed., Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976).
15. Nancy Sahli, "Smashing Women's Relationships before the Fall," Chysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture 8 (1979): 17-27.
16. See, for example, Kathleen Barry, Female Sexual Slavery (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979);
17. Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (Boston: Beacon, 1978);
18. Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring inside Her (New York: Harper & Row, 1978);
19. Diana Russell and Nicole van de Ven, eds., Proceedings of the International Tribunal of Crimes against Women (Millbrae, Calif.: Les Femmes, 1976);
20. and Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975);
21. Louise Armstrong, Kiss Daddy Goodnight: A Speakout on Incest (New York: Pocket Books, 1979);
22. Sandra Butler, Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest (San Francisco: New Glide, 1978);
23. F. Delacoste and F. Newman, eds., Fight Back!: Feminist Resistance to Male Violence (Minneapolis: Cleis Press, 1981);
24. Judy Freespirit, Daddy's Girl: An Incest Survivor's Story (Langlois, Ore.: Diaspora Distribution, 1982);
25. Judith Herman, Father-Daughter Incest (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981);
26. Toni McNaron and Yarrow Morgan, eds., Voices in the Night: Women Speaking about Incest (Minneapolis: Cleis Press, 1982);
27. Kathleen Gough, "The Origin of the Family," in Toward an Anthropology of Women, ed. Rayna [Rapp] Reiter (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975), pp. 69-70.
28. Andrea Dworkin, Women Hating (New York: Dutton, 1974), pp. 118-154;
29. See Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (London: Hogarth, 1929),
30. Tillie Olsen, Silences (Boston: Delacorte, 1978);
31. Michelle Cliff, "The Resonance of Interruption," Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture 8 (1979): 29-37.
32. Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father (Boston: Beacon, 1973), pp. 347-351;
33. Daly Beyond God the Father, p. 93.
34. Fran P. Hosken, "The Violence of Power: Genital Mutilation of Females," Heresies: A Feminist Journal of Art and Politics 6 (1979): 28-35;
35. Catherine A. MacKinnon, Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 15-16.
36. Susan Cavin, "Lesbian Origins" (Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University 1978), unpublished, ch. 6).
37. True to Life Adventure Stories (Oakland, Calif.: Diana Press, 1978).
38. Daly Gyn/Ecology, p.15.
39. Audre Lorde, "Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power," in Sister Outsider (Trumansburg, N.Y.: Crossing Press, 1984).
40. Adrienne Rich, "Conditions for Work: The Common World of Women" in On Lies, Secrets, and Silence, p. 209;
41. Woolf, A Room of One's Own, p. 126.
42. Gracia Clark, "The Beguines: A Mediaeval Women's Community," Quest: A Feminist Quarterly 1, no. 4 (1975): 73-80.
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44. Agnes Smedley, Portraits of Chinese Women in Revolution, ed. J. MacKinnon and S. MacKinnon (Old Westbury, N.Y: Feminist Press, 1976), pp. 103-110.
45. See Rosalind Petchesky, "Dissolving the Hyphen: A Report on Marxist-Feminist Groups 1-5," in Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, ed. Zillah Eisenstein (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979), p. 387.
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47. and Deirdre Carmody, "Letters by Eleanor Roosevelt Detail Friendship with Lorena Hickok," New York Times (October 21, 1979).
48. Meridel LeSueur, The Girl (Cambridge, Mass: West End Press, 1978), pp. 10-11. LeSueur describes, in an afterword, how this book was drawn from the writings and oral narration of women in the Workers Alliance who met as a writers' group during the depression.
49. Toni Morrison, Sula (New York: Bantam, 1973), pp. 103-104, 149.
50. See Maureen Brady and Judith McDaniel, "Lesbians in the Mainstream: The Image of Lesbians in Recent Commercial Fiction," Conditions 6 (1979): 82-105.
51. Bethel, "'This Infinity of Conscious Pain,'" op. cit.