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5 feb 2023 · Contemporary culture, especially contemporary western queer culture, is very inward-focused and centered on the idea of personal identity and individuality. This is not the culture in which the term compulsory heterosexuality emerged. The idea of compulsory heterosexuality was first put forth by poet and lesbian feminist writer Adrienne Rich in ...
4 dic 2017 · The term “compulsory heterosexuality” originated with the publication of Adrienne Rich's influential lesbian feminist essay, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” in 1980. Rich asserted that heterosexuality is deeply ingrained in our political institutions and everyday lives. Although heterosexuality is frequently ...
Compulsory Sexuality and the Desiring Woman. H. Radner. Philosophy. 2008. Adrienne Rich’s 1980 essay, ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’, left an indelible imprint on feminist research. Even though students today may not have read the essay, the term…. Expand. 10.
13 lug 2023 · For Rich, compulsory heterosexuality refers to the inaccurate assumption that women are innately attracted to men, as well as the erasure of lesbian existence from feminist scholarship, especially history. 8 Rich prefers the expansivity of lesbian existence over the "clinical and limiting ring" of lesbianism, because lesbian existence ...
Many believe the slander that women become lesbians out of hatred of men. Lesbian feminists, above all Adrienne Rich, have been putting forward a radically different perspective. We see compulsory heterosexuality as a political institution, a beachhead of male dominance, that crushes, invalidates and forces into hiding love between women.
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980) Rich, Adrienne Cecile. Journal of Women's History, Volume 15, Number 3, Autumn 2003, pp. 11-48 (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2003.0079 For additional information about this article
Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence". Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," originally published in 1980 in Signs and reprinted in numerous publica. tions, immediately unsettled feminist thinking. That the article eventually. faded from more recent feminist and queer studies debates has ...
