I believe that there is a lot of confusion with regards to these concepts. Lesbians do not always identify themselves as feminists and feminists do not always identify themselves as lesbians.
In the 1970's according to some resources feminists wore plain white cotton underwear, wore short masculine haircuts and never shaved their legs or underarms, claiming that their looks refelcted their convictions, which were perceived as simply anti-family, anti-marriage, anti-children, and perhaps even anti-religion, not to mention anti-men.
Having their hair dyed, painting their nails, wearing make-up or dressing even slightly feminine meant that men would not take them seriously, would not see them as equals and therefore not gain their respect.
Feminism presented the family as a kind of prison, with a working career on the outside as a kind of liberation.
This did not take into account that for most people a family has always been the meaning of their life, the finding and creation of the closest relatives that a human being can have. Men did not go to work to enjoy the self-fulfillment of work. They went to work to support their families, often at jobs that they positively hated, or at least just tolerated for the sake of the income. Few men were so fortunate as to be doing something fulfilling or interesting that paid the bills at the same time.
While feminists lamented that women often give up years, or all, of their careers in order to have children, even men with hopes of a fulfilling career traditionally have often had to give up those hopes if they suddenly were responsible for a family.
Gloria Steinman according to the resources claims to have stated that a woman could in fact "have it all" a fullfilling career and a family to enjoy the fruits of what her career brought home.
Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective, most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s (primarily in North America and Western Europe) that questions the position of women and homosexuals in society. Some key thinkers and activists are Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Mary Daly, Sheila Jeffreys and Monique Wittig (although the latter is more commonly associated with the emergence of queer theory).
its a branched off movement from the 70's its key ideas were:
An emphasis on women's love for one another
Separatist organizations
Community and ideas
Idea that lesbianism is about choice and resistance
Idea that the personal is the political
A rejection of hierarchy in the form of role-playing and sadomasochism
A critique of male supremacy which eroticises inequality
Choice and social Constructivism: - lesbianism was a form for resistance to "man-made" institutions while sexual orientation was that of a consious choice to a situation.
Separtism: Contraversial key strategy, very extreme and even included male genocide - this was a small isolated view but did flourish with followers.
lesbian feminists put forward a notion of "tactical separatism" from men, arguing for and investing in things like women's sanctuaries and consciousness-raising groups, but also exploring everyday practices to which women may temporarily retreat or practice solitude from men and masculinity.
Women identified Woman: unlike the "man-hating butch dykes" which seems to stereotype most lesbians by men who cant get to sleep with a lesbian, these woman rejected female masculinity outright, the movement argued that "most forms of masculinity was problematic"
Womyn's culture: (according to Wikipoedia)
"Womyn" along with "wimin", "womin" were terms produced by parts of the lesbian feminist movement to distinguish it from men and masculine (or "phallogocentric") language.
the word 'Woman' is a derivative of the word 'Man' and therefore symbolised oppression by men. This movement discussed the greek goddesses and warrior womyn, the texts were mostly poetic.
Interestingly enough these movements opposed to both BDSM (bondage and sado masochism) and Transgenderism (surgical re-assignment) because they likened it to violence against women, unlike the views of today which is the inrichment of lives and sexual satisfaction of the individual's choice to practice what they want and desire and live the way they want and desire.
in summary, well in my opinion, I have to agree that alot of lesbians wear white underwear (actually these days we wear black underwear) and cut our hair short, but things have changed, lesbians in the new millenium know that they can have it all and although we do have our "butch dykes" who have been brought up by their fathers who grew up in the 40's -50's, with the "all women should be housewives", who dress in bover boots and have army haircuts, there are a great deal with girls that shave under their arms, wear perfume and are proud of being a woman and who loves a woman, cant we just let ourselves be?
In the 1970's according to some resources feminists wore plain white cotton underwear, wore short masculine haircuts and never shaved their legs or underarms, claiming that their looks refelcted their convictions, which were perceived as simply anti-family, anti-marriage, anti-children, and perhaps even anti-religion, not to mention anti-men.
Having their hair dyed, painting their nails, wearing make-up or dressing even slightly feminine meant that men would not take them seriously, would not see them as equals and therefore not gain their respect.
Feminism presented the family as a kind of prison, with a working career on the outside as a kind of liberation.
This did not take into account that for most people a family has always been the meaning of their life, the finding and creation of the closest relatives that a human being can have. Men did not go to work to enjoy the self-fulfillment of work. They went to work to support their families, often at jobs that they positively hated, or at least just tolerated for the sake of the income. Few men were so fortunate as to be doing something fulfilling or interesting that paid the bills at the same time.
While feminists lamented that women often give up years, or all, of their careers in order to have children, even men with hopes of a fulfilling career traditionally have often had to give up those hopes if they suddenly were responsible for a family.
Gloria Steinman according to the resources claims to have stated that a woman could in fact "have it all" a fullfilling career and a family to enjoy the fruits of what her career brought home.
Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective, most popular in the 1970s and early 1980s (primarily in North America and Western Europe) that questions the position of women and homosexuals in society. Some key thinkers and activists are Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Mary Daly, Sheila Jeffreys and Monique Wittig (although the latter is more commonly associated with the emergence of queer theory).
its a branched off movement from the 70's its key ideas were:
An emphasis on women's love for one another
Separatist organizations
Community and ideas
Idea that lesbianism is about choice and resistance
Idea that the personal is the political
A rejection of hierarchy in the form of role-playing and sadomasochism
A critique of male supremacy which eroticises inequality
Choice and social Constructivism: - lesbianism was a form for resistance to "man-made" institutions while sexual orientation was that of a consious choice to a situation.
Separtism: Contraversial key strategy, very extreme and even included male genocide - this was a small isolated view but did flourish with followers.
lesbian feminists put forward a notion of "tactical separatism" from men, arguing for and investing in things like women's sanctuaries and consciousness-raising groups, but also exploring everyday practices to which women may temporarily retreat or practice solitude from men and masculinity.
Women identified Woman: unlike the "man-hating butch dykes" which seems to stereotype most lesbians by men who cant get to sleep with a lesbian, these woman rejected female masculinity outright, the movement argued that "most forms of masculinity was problematic"
Womyn's culture: (according to Wikipoedia)
"Womyn" along with "wimin", "womin" were terms produced by parts of the lesbian feminist movement to distinguish it from men and masculine (or "phallogocentric") language.
the word 'Woman' is a derivative of the word 'Man' and therefore symbolised oppression by men. This movement discussed the greek goddesses and warrior womyn, the texts were mostly poetic.
Interestingly enough these movements opposed to both BDSM (bondage and sado masochism) and Transgenderism (surgical re-assignment) because they likened it to violence against women, unlike the views of today which is the inrichment of lives and sexual satisfaction of the individual's choice to practice what they want and desire and live the way they want and desire.
in summary, well in my opinion, I have to agree that alot of lesbians wear white underwear (actually these days we wear black underwear) and cut our hair short, but things have changed, lesbians in the new millenium know that they can have it all and although we do have our "butch dykes" who have been brought up by their fathers who grew up in the 40's -50's, with the "all women should be housewives", who dress in bover boots and have army haircuts, there are a great deal with girls that shave under their arms, wear perfume and are proud of being a woman and who loves a woman, cant we just let ourselves be?
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