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Cheshire Calhoun's Project of Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ann Ferguson
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Abstract

I support Cheshire Calhoun's argument that there is a distinctive type of sexuality injustice addressed to lesbians and gays, but challenge her definitional strategy regarding the concepts of “lesbian” and “gay” and the “universalistic essentialist” distinction that she draws between patriarchy and compulsory heterosexuality. Finally, I take issue with the political implications of her claim that lesbians’ and gays’ special oppression stems from our exclusion from the legal prerogatives of marriage and parenthood.

Type
Author Meets Critics Panel: APA Eastern Division Meeting, 1996
Information
Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 214 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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