{"id":6441,"date":"2023-06-20T07:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T05:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/2023\/06\/20\/le-retour-du-lesbianisme-politique-isabelle-rialet-meneux\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T05:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T03:13:14","slug":"the-return-of-political-lesbianism-isabelle-rialet-meneux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pipol11.pipolcongres.eu\/en\/2023\/06\/20\/the-return-of-political-lesbianism-isabelle-rialet-meneux\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of political lesbianism \u2013 Isabelle Rialet-Meneux<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne day, I stopped having sex with men\u201d, thus concludes the prologue to Ovidie\u2019s[1]<\/a> latest essay. Even if the author does not turn it into a feminist manual, she denounces how heterosexuality is not free for her and that \u201csince the world is world, women have exchanged sex for something. Material goods, security, love, revaluation\u201d[2]<\/a>. Taking up Monique Wittig\u2019s expression, she decided to \u201cbreak the heterosexual contract\u201d. It is not that Ovidie \u201chates men, but she hates them in bed\u201d[3]<\/a>. Undoubtedly therein lies the difference with the current trend towards misandry.<\/p>\n

For some years now, we have been hearing young women, activists within movements that are described as neo-feminist<\/em>, making the choice to unconditionally refuse all amorous and sexual relationships with men, even though their choice of object and their attraction was previously towards the other sex. They recognize themselves under the signifier misandry<\/em>, arguing their decision by rejecting all patriarchal domination and presenting cisgender<\/em> men as potential aggressors, particularly sexual aggressors. A young female patient, a gluer <\/em>who denounces feminicide, received at the BAPU[4]<\/a>, does not hesitate to generalise and universalise these crimes with this formula: \u201cmen kill us<\/em> with impunity\u201d.<\/p>\n

A sexual and love relationship is possible with a man provided that he is trans<\/em>. The clinic with students, in the forefront of the current feminist movements, teaches us about what presents itself more on the side of the rules and new norms to be followed rather than on the singularity of an unconscious choice of object. More often than not, this \u201cforced\u201d choice of homosexuality is made in an inconsequential shift against the background of an already pre-existing gender fluidity. The encounter of bodies is not necessary, as the relationship can be built in the register of sisterhood<\/em> and shared militancy.<\/p>\n

These young women do not present themselves as homosexuals \u2013\u00a0a rarely used signifier\u00a0\u2013 but as \u201clesbians\u201d. What is the difference? It would seem that it is a will to inscribe this act in the radical feminist movement of their elders.<\/p>\n

Indeed, \u201cpolitical lesbianism\u201d is a movement that developed in the late 1960s as a mean of combating sexism and heterosexuality, which, it is argued, is a social construct. This more radical movement urged women to reject sexual relations with men, and thus marriage and heteronormative family life. It invited them to question their own submission to the heteropatriarchal system. In France, it was M.\u00a0Wittig, MLF[5]<\/a> activist and author of The Straight Mind and Other Essays<\/em>[6]<\/a>, who theorised political lesbianism, proposing it as an adaptation of the patriarchal system, rather than a will to abolish it.<\/p>\n

It would seem that the contemporary version goes even further in the direction of radicality. It is refined to what we note as the effects of the \u201cevaporation of the father\u201d[7]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

References from the author:
\n[1]<\/a> Ovidie, La Chair est triste h\u00e9las,<\/em> Paris, Julliard, 2023, p.\u00a023. (Untranslated in English), our translation.
\n[2]<\/a> Ibid.<\/em>, p.\u00a023.
\n[3]<\/a> Ibid.<\/em>, p.\u00a081.
\n[4]<\/a> University Psychological Support Office.
\n[5]<\/a> Women\u2019s liberation movement.
\n[6]<\/a> Wittig M., The Straight Mind and Other Essays<\/em>, Boston, Beacon Press, 1992.
\n[7]<\/a> Lacan J., \u00ab\u00a0Note sur le p\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb, La Cause du d\u00e9sir<\/em>, n\u00b089, march\u00a02015, p.\u00a08. (untranslated in English), our translation.<\/p>\n

Translation: Ana-Marija Kroker
\nProofreading: Tracy Hoijer-Favre<\/p>\n

Picture : \u00a9 Marie Van Roey<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne day, I stopped having sex with men\u201d, thus concludes the prologue to Ovidie\u2019s[1] latest essay. Even if the author does not turn it into a feminist manual, she denounces how heterosexuality is not free for her and that \u201csince the world is world, women have exchanged sex for something. Material goods, security, love, revaluation\u201d[2]. 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