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The Lesbian Revolution: Lesbian Feminism in the UK, 1970-1990

Sheila Jeffreys

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The Lesbian Revolution argues that lesbian feminists were a vital force in the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM). They did not just play a fundamental role in the important changes wrought by second wave feminism, but created a powerful revolution in lesbian theory, culture and practice. Yet this lesbian revolution is undocumented.

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Published September 10th 2018 by Routledge

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Mar 22, 2019 fausto rated it liked it

Shelves: feminism, herstory, lesbian, lesbian-feminism, lesbian-separatism, radical-feminism, womyn-culture

Is very very similar to her 1993's book "The Lesbian Heresy" both in content and critic. If you have ever read that book you problably already knows a lot of her positions in "The Lesbian Revolution". Yes, this book have interviews of some of her 1970-80's partners of revolutionary feminist activism in the UK. The most interesting part of the book is her description/herstory of the particularities of the English lesbian-feminist movement in relation with its US counterpart.

I can't avoid a compa Is very very similar to her 1993's book "The Lesbian Heresy" both in content and critic. If you have ever read that book you problably already knows a lot of her positions in "The Lesbian Revolution". Yes, this book have interviews of some of her 1970-80's partners of revolutionary feminist activism in the UK. The most interesting part of the book is her description/herstory of the particularities of the English lesbian-feminist movement in relation with its US counterpart.

I can't avoid a comparation of this book with Bonnie Morri's "The Disappearing L" both describe the rise and fall of the lesbian culture (but Jeffrey's book deals a lot more with politics and non-cultural activism) while I really love Morri's book for her deep knowledge of the herstory of the US lesbian cultural institutions, I found Jeffrey's Lesbian Revolution kinda repetitive paraphrasing in many cases her more extensive and deeply grounded critique in The Lesbian Heresy

I found very interesting that she never mentions the BBC's 2006 documentary "Lefties: Angry Wimmin", specially when you realize that she not only participate in the documentary, but her interviewed are basically the same. Obviously "Angry Wimmin" is the direct antecedent of this book. If you see that documentary and read "The Lesbian Heresy" you have virtually "read" this book, that's why my 3 stars.

The other reasong is that while she is very clear about the harms that transgender, capitalism, assimilation politics and free-politics sexual thought have done to lesbian politics and community, I found racist her conclusions of what she calls "identity politics". Yes, she clearly states her anti-racist and anti-classist positions, but by demeaning the work of very insighful and classical black feminist and lesbian intellectuals she makes in one way or another a statement. Is not that she is "racist" or classist" but I found that in general (with some notable exceptions) white intellectuals tend to trivialize the politics of non-white and jewish experience.

Is a good book, but I find "The Lesbian Heresy" a lot more insighful. ...more

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Sheila Jeffreys writes and teaches in the areas of sexual politics, international gender politics, and lesbian and gay politics. She has written six books on the history and politics of sexuality. Originally from the UK, Sheila moved to Melbourne in 1991 to take up a position at the University of Melbourne. She has been actively involved in feminist and lesbian feminist politics, particularly arou ...more