For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology

For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology

Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope

Onlywomen Press

1988

This anthology includes essays by over 70 contributors: novelists, musicians, poets, philosophers, academics and seriously, rowdy dykes who document 20 years of lesbian activism.

Political fervour; autobiographical insight; theoretical analyses; philosophical treatises; short stories; poetry; together these radical voices add up to a declaration of the necessity for, and a vision of, lesbian civilization.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction / Sarah Lucia Hoagland
2. The woman identified woman / Radicalesbians, 1970
3. How to stop choking to death or: separatism / Revolutionary Lesbians
4. The furies / Ginny Berson, 1972
5. Over the walls, separatism / Gutter Dyke Collective, 1973
6. Separatism / Alice, Gordon Debbie, and Mary, 1973
7. Directions / Alice Gordon, Debbie and Mary, 1973
8. Lesbian separatism: the linguistic and social sources of separatist politics / Julia Penelope, 1974
9. A cursory and precursory history of language, and the telling of it / Julia Penelope, 1976
10. Some reflections on separatism and power / Marilyn Frye, 1977
11. Lesbian separatist basics / K. Hess, Jean Langford, and Kathy Ross, 1980
12. Female only / Bev Jo, 1981
13. Freedom / Redwomon, 1981
14. A black separatist / Anna Lee, 1981
15. Lesbian Separatist statement from the colsing sessiof the Jewish feminist conference, held in San Francisco May, 1982
16. Relating to dyke spsaratists: hints for the non-separatist lesbian / Marty with help of the dykes of S.E.P.S., 1983
17. The evolution of lesbian separatist consciousness / Sidney Spinster, 1982
18. Comparative separatism / K. Hess, Jean Langford, and Kathy Ross, 1980
19. Lesbian separatism: a historical and comparative perspective / Bette S. Tallen, 1983
20. It has to do with apples / Sarah Grace, 1981
21. The issue is woman identitfication / Margaret Sloan Hunter, 1976
22. Owning Jewish separatism and lesbian separatism / Billie Luisi Potts, 1982
23. Matriarchy: a guide to the future? / Carol (Murf) Moorefield and Kathleen Valentine, 1983
24. Gum Lin and Loy Yi Young / Kathy Munzer, 1982
25. Finally out of drag / Gutter Dyke Collective, 1973
26. They tried to make it personal / Revolutionary Lesbians, 1971
27. Fear / Vivenne Louise, 1983
28. Three Chinese Womyn / Lola Lai Jong, 1981
29. Be-friending: the lust to share happiness / Mary Daly, 1984
30. An invitation / Sarah Lucia Hoagland, 1983
31. Expatriate / zana, 1981
32. Separatist symposium / Liza Cowan, 1978
33. Response by Penny House / Penny House, 1978
34. I know I take a chance in forming words into meaning: a leap over wild waters. Or, talking myself into getting a haircut / Susan, 1982
35. An interview with a separatist, January 23, 1983 / iandras moontree
36. Our of the bedroom / Jorika Anna, 1982
37. Risk / Sarah Valentine, 1982
38. Album liner notes from a lesbian portrait / Linda Shear, 1977, ed. Sid Spencer; Family of woman, 1972
39. Battle fatigue … / Revolutionary Lesbians
40. On separatism and the perils of having a man around the house / Anita Cornwell, 1982
41. Gut feelings / Gutter Dyke Collective, 1973
42. One more contradiction / Naomi DykeStein, 1983
43. Some thoughts on separatism / Sarah Grace, 1982
44. X-tra insights / flying thunda cloud, rdoc, 1982
45. Why be separatists? Expolring women-only energy, Alix Dobkin, 1982
46. To rose / Vernita Gray, 1983
47. The ancient matriarchy of Atlantis / Juana María Paz, 1981
48. Lesbian mothers / Alice, Gordon, Debbie, and Mary, 1973
49. Additions to the 1st printing of lesbian separatism: an Amazon analysis / Alice, Gordon, Debbie, and Mary, 1974
50. Where the boys aren’t!! / Nancy Breeze, 1982
51. The tired old question of male children / Anna Lee, 1983
52. For women who call themselve lesbians _ are you thinking of getting pregnant? / Bev Jo, 1984
53. We have to ask the question: what is happening? / Baba Cooper, 1981
54. In the drean / Jan Hardy, 1981
55. Remembering: a time I will be my own beginning / Jeffner Allen, 1982
56. This is the year to stamp out the ‘Y’ chromosome / Gutter Dyke Collective, 1973
57. The workshop / Sylvia Foley, 1981
58. Popular separatist-baiting quotes and some separatist responses / Marty with help from the dykes of S.E.P.S., 1983
59. Coming out queer and brown / Naomi Littlebear Morena, 1981
60. The awakening / Lee Lynch, 1982
61. C.L.I.T. Statement #2 / C.L.I.T. Collective, 1974
62. Spearation: room of one’s own / Mary Daly, 1978
63. The agent within / oedipussy tudée (of the C.L.I.T. collective), 1974
64. Problems of our movement / Alice, Gordon, Debbie, and Mary, 1973
65. Response by the Gogons / Gorgons, 1978
66. In defense of lesbian separatism: a response to the Combahee River Collective statement on lesbian separatism / Doreen Worden and Isabel Andrews, 1981
67. Trying hard to forfeit all I’ve known / killa-man (of the C.L.I.T. Collective), 1974
68. Lesbian feminist separatism: radical new beginnings / Anne E. Schulherr Waters, 1982
69. The straight mind / Monique Witting / 1980
70. One is not born a woman / Monique Witting, 1981
71. Separatism and radicalism / Ariane Brudet and Louise Turcotte, 1982
72. Splits in French feminism/lesbianism / Marthe Rosenfeld, 1986
73. Motherhood / Claudie Lesselier, 1981
74. Feminism and radical lesbianism / Claudie Graziella, Irene Martine, and Franc̦oise, 1981
75. How gay to be ‘different’! / Isabel Dargent, 1981
76. Leaflet handed out at an abortion demonstration in Brussels, 3rd October 1981
77. Warning! Heterosexuality may damage your health! / Vanille-Fraise, 1981
78. The mind-drifting islands / Micheline Grimard-Leduc, 1982
79. Separatist / Caryatis Cardea, 1984
80. They mystery of lesbians / Julia Penelope, 1984
81. Journal entry / Elana Dykewomon, 1981