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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.

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'

THE AUTHOR IS CONCERNED WITH THE QUESTION OF HOW NORTH AMERICAN ANTI-IMPERIALIST FEMINISTS LIKE HERSELF CAN SUPPORT CENTRAL AMERICAN GROUPS WITHOUT EITHER UNDERMINING THEIR OWN VALUES OR MAKING THE CULTURALLY IMPERIALISTIC ASSUMPTION THAT OUR OWN STRATEGIES FOR LIBERATION WILL AUTOMATICALLY SUIT THEM. SHE OUTLINES A FEMINIST MATERIALIST THEORY AND EXAMINES HOW IT CAN BE APPLIED TO NICARAGUA. THEN SHE PRESENTS SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT NICARAGUAN LESBIAN AND GAY MALE CULTURE. FINALLY, SHE CONSIDERS WHAT LIGHT THE EXPERIENCE OF NICARAGUAN FEMINIST AND LESBIANS CAN SHED ON SEVERAL PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL QUESTIONS, INCLUDING A POSTMODERN CONCEPTION OF THE SELF, THE ROLE OF SEPARATISM AND IDENTITY POLITICS, AND THE ISSUE OF SOLIDARITY AMONG FEMINISTS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD.