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Thoughts on Lesbian Differences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Chris J. Cuomo
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Abstract

Cheshire Calhoun argues chat thinking of lesbians as a subcategory of women provides an insufficient basis for considering key differences between lesbians and straight women, and that these politically significant differences are therefore erased by theories and politics that take the subject of feminism to be women. Here 1 look closely and critically at CaJhoun's own account of lesbian differences, and argue that sexual desire, while complicated, ought to remain central in any such account.

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Type
Author Meets Critics Panel: APA Eastern Division Meeting, 1996
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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 198 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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