I see a lot of people claiming feminism has always been about both sexes, just as much a thing for men as it is for women. This is absolute nonsense. It was always a movement for female liberation. And for many 2nd wave feminists - many, not a few - men were the enemy.
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Check this out. It's not complete, which is a shame, but it'll give you a sense of the radicalism of 1970s feminism: https://materialfeminista.milharal.org/files/2012/10/Political-Lesbianism-The-Case-Against-Heterosexuality-LRFG.pdf …
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Now it's true that the Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group were radical amongst feminists in the 1970s. But they were not out of the mainstream. The views that they represented, in the UK at least, were right at the center of things.
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Well, that's the thing isn't it... The importance of political lesbianism can be seen precisely in the schisms that appeared in the feminist movement in the late 1970s.
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There's an excellent survey of the terrain written by @beatrixcampbell in 1980. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1394695
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