SOC395H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 7: Consciousness Raising, Amber L. Hollibaugh, Cherríe Moraga
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What we"re rolling around in bed with by amber hollibaugh and cherrie moraga. Amber hollibaugh who ideniies as high-femme and her friend cherrie moraga who ideniies as butch. Discuss their personal experiences with sexuality as role-players in dominant-submissive sexual dichotomies. Second wave feminism has failed to directly address female sexuality on its own terms outside of its oppressive funcion in relaion to men. Early feminist movement spoke very litle about lesbianism, misunderstood heterosexuality and spoke very litle about sexuality and sexual pleasure o o. Feminist would not examine sexual need with each other except oppressor/opressee. Lesbianism became to be a pracice of feminism out of all of this. The ulimate paradigmaic feminist sexuality; egalitarian free from power. In our culture, sexuality is enormous; no general sense of direcion. Misleading and damaging o (pg. 397) but in feminism, we can"t even explore these quesions because what they say is, in gender, there is a masculine oppressor and a female oppressee.
