Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
@article{Rich1980CompulsoryHA, title={Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence}, author={A. Rich}, journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society}, year={1980}, volume={5}, pages={631 - 660} }
In its first issue (Autumn 1975), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society published Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's now classic article, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America." The following summer appeared Joan Kelly's "The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History (Signs:Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 1, no. 4 [Summer 1976]). Among scholarly articles, these two provided, in different ways… CONTINUE READING
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