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  • (1982) Thompson, Denise
    Conference Paper
    Argues that, at this conference, some of the ‘old’ fights appear to have been resolved, namely the 'lesbian/straight split'; the academic/nonacademic split; the problem of men; and the marxist (or socialist) feminist/radical feminist argument. On the other hand, there were ‘new’ issues—closing workshops and venues and turning women away, whether or not to stick to formal meeting procedures, and racism.

  • (1980) Thompson, Denise
    Conference Paper
    This paper is an attempt to set down a theoretical account of an argument that was prevalent during the early years of the Women’s Liberation Movement of ‘second wave’ feminism, but which was rarely verbalised, much less theorised publicly. The argument was that lesbian/feminism, as the refusal to be implicated in the male supremacist categorisation of ‘women’, was the most revolutionary practice of feminist consciousness.

  • (1980) Thompson, Denise
    Conference Paper
    A series of pieces written in response to what happened at the ‘Lesbian’ session at the second Women and Labour conference in Melbourne in 1980, and to the paper, ‘Lesbianism as political practice’