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Lesbian feminism is a feminist ideology, popular in the 1970s and 1980s, that advocated the view that feminism and lesbianism were linked. It was not only the fact that women had sex with other women, but were not dependant on men and withdrew from men was argued to provide the element of liberation.
Sometimes the word lesbian was not meant to imply exclusively homosexuality, but was intended to mean support and love for other women.
Lesbian separatism was a logical continuation of the idea, and was centered around creating separate societies exclusively for lesbian women.
External links
- Lesbian Feminism (http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/lesbian_feminism.html) at the GLBTQ encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer culture.
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