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The late 1980s in London was a period of heady transition for everyone in that city, and lesbian feminists were no exception. London's radically socialist local government, the Greater London Council, had been abolished by Margaret Thatcher's administration in 1986; the 1980s boom was rapidly declining; and the feminist theories on which lesbian feminist separatists had based their lives were being seriously challenged, particularly from within their own community. The book traces the relationship between changing theories about gender and sexuality and women's own lives, and looks at how lesbian feminists lived through this period, when it seemed as though their community was fragmenting into an apolitical, postmodernist chaos. Booknews Traces the relationship between changing theories about gender and sexuality and women's own lives, and looks at how lesbian feminists lived through the late 1980sa period when London's radically socialist local government, the Greater London Council, had been abolished by Margaret Thatcher's administration; the 1980s boom was rapidly declining; and the feminist theories on which lesbian feminist separatists had based their lives were being seriously challenged, particularly from within their own community. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
List of FiguresList of TablesList of PlatesAcknowledgementsIntroduction11A Matter of Identities52Spaces in Between243Relations Within: Continuity and Discontinuity604Comparative and Historical Review1075From the Outside In: A Political Economy1346Difference and Desire: The Sexuality Debates159App. A'Clause 28'197App. BSubjects Covered in Life History Interviews198Notes199Bibliography207Index220
