Domesticating the Liberated Woman: Containment Rhetorics of Second Wave Radical/Lesbian Feminism

abstract

• The battle over lesbian sexuality and identity in feminism's second wave was one of its most crippling struggles. This essay discusses this battle by focusing on the rhetorics of radical/lesbian feminism between 1970 and 1975, contextualizing them within movement struggles over public identity, revolutionary vision, and media politics. Calling attention to the ways radical/lesbian feminists' woman-identified rhetoric engaged in strategies of containment, this essay describes a domestication of woman and radical/lesbian feminism itself. 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

authors

• Poirot, Kristan

published proceedings

• Women's Studies in Communication

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Poirot, K.

citation count

• 21

complete list of authors

• Poirot, Kristan

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Women's Studies in Communication  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/07491409.2009.10162391

start page

• 263

end page

• 292

volume

• 32

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2009.10162391