Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
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Article in: Signs, Vol. 5, No. 4, Women: Sex and Sexuality (Summer, 1980), pp. 631-660Language: EnglishDescription:Adrienne Rich’s EssayAdrienne Rich popularized the phrase "compulsory heterosexuality" in her 1980 essay Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence. In the essay, she argued from a specifically lesbian feminist point of view that heterosexuality is not innate in human beings. Nor is it the only normal sexuality, she said. She further asserted that women can benefit more from relationships with other women than from relationships with men.Adrienne Rich is a prominent feminist poet, writer and lesbian philosopher.
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