By choosing to build identities around these constructions instead of choosing to attack the ways the categories had been constructed, IP created a position that was a strong base for fighting for civil and/or equal rights, including the right to live within one’s own culture. Like all movements, there were splinters and splits and disagreements the unity began to wear, as Black participants began to live the message of self-love and pride and grew weary of the continuing liberal racism of their white co-horts. Major battles had been won, territory had been granted, and the vast, multi-racial group of people who had won so much were faced with having to settle in for the long haul. By the middle of the 1960’s, the heady, heroic days of the Civil Rights movement were ending. Let me give you a vastly oversimplified, yet still basically true, version of how Identity Politics came to be. Identity Politics: Background and Strengths To get there, I need to first give a (very condensed) summary of a long review of the role of Identity Politics as I came to see it, and those of us who have used it, through my writing and activism.
The section included here examines the question of what we mean when we say “sexual identity” and explores one potential way to re-consider power and affiliations.
The larger essay, entitled “Suckled at Sarah’s Breast,” is mainly concerned with the creation and defense of boundaries around various identities. I wrote this work as part of my MS in Women’s Studies, and was therefore free to combine theory and metaphors from political science, anthropology, and history with a free-flowing form of autobiography. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.This article is excerpted from a much longer essay analyzing the role of Identity Politics in Feminist and Lesbian communities.
The writings (which include essays, poetry, a dialogue, and forms without names) resonate with the feelings and thoughts of many wimmin. This book suggests that lesbian philosophy is like a potluck: wimmin bring their own contributions and also help themselves to the offerings of others.ĭyke Ideas is written in a candid, clear, jargon-free style that makes it accessible to a wide range of readers. Persuasion is tyranny, Joyce Trebilcot thinks, so she tries not to interfere with a reader’s processes of creating/discovering her own ideas. The authoritarian, God’s-eye stance typical of academic writing is disavowed in favor of an approach that denies that others “should” accept the author’s beliefs. “Craziness,” guilt, competition, sex, and other topics are explored in ways that reject male values and move toward wimmin-identified cultures. The main value is wimmin―women separate from men and men’s inventions. Dyke Ideas is a passionate and insightful contribution to lesbian philosophy.
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