I've spent the day re-reading the literature from the debates in the late-1970s over revolutionary feminism & lesbian separatism. Three things strike me...
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2. But... it's striking that many of the fundamental issues have analogues in the current debates over the effectiveness of identity politics, and the dangers of requiring ideological purity.
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3. The separatist position was highly reductive in the way that it saw penetration as essentially violent & as underpinning the edifice of male domination. There is, of course, something to the argument, but... I think it'd be a lot harder to make 30 years on.
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The whole thing makes for fascinating reading - I've not looked at it for 20 years - and makes me think more of the people involved.
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