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The pursuit of high ideals in politics is often scorned as unrealistic and, therefore, undesirable. This article considers two new ways in which this might be true. One allegation is that ideals might be so highly idealized as to be inaccessible to ordinary agents and hence incapable of guiding their actions. The other notes that the full and simultaneous implementation of all of our ideals is typically unrealistic, and that first-best ideal desiderata may well be imperfect guides to choice among second-best worlds. (British Journal of Political Science / AuD)

The pursuit of high ideals in politics is often scorned as unrealistic and, therefore, undesirable. This article considers two new ways in which this might be true. One allegation is that ideals might be so highly idealized as to be inaccessible to ordinary agents and hence incapable of guiding their actions. The other notes that the full and simultaneous implementation of all of our ideals is typically unrealistic, and that first-best ideal desiderata may well be imperfect guides to choice among second-best worlds.

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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Notes on Popular Culture and Political Practice / Gruneau, Richard -- What the Hell: or Some Comments on Class Formation and Cultural Reproduction / Palmer, Bryan -- The Politics of Feeling Good: Reflections on Marxism and Cultural Production / Corrigan, Philip -- Women, Fantasy and Popular Culture: The Wonderful World of Harlequin Romance / Finn, Geraldine -- Sport as a Site for "Popular" Resistance / Donnelly, Peter -- Remembering the Audience: Notes on Control, Ideology and Oppositional Strategies in the News Media / Hackett, Robert

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'