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Latest revision as of 13:34, 7 May 2008
Compulsory heterosexuality is the notion that patriarchy is built on heterosexual access to women by men. Political lesbianism, therefore, offers a feminist response to patriarchy: Redirection of women's energy away from men towards women, and deconstruction of the patriarchal myths of heteronormativity.
The term comes from Adrienne Rich's 1980 essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence".
Text available at http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm .