Woman Identified Woman by Radicalesbians
In the essay entitled, "Woman identified woman," the organization Radicalesbians discusses the crucial issue of identifying women as reinforces of the perpetuation of oppression in human society. This means that prejudice and oppression against women cannot be eliminated nor gradually lessened, primarily because women will always act against the interest of their own sector. However, it is important to bear in mind that what makes women reinforce this oppression upon themselves is the result of a long history of living under the social structure of patriarchy.
Addressing these important issues in the essay, the argument of the Radicalesbians involves a three-pronged analysis of the social condition of women's oppression in the contemporary society. First, they talk about the nature of lesbianism and its challenges in a male-dominated society; second, they go further in their critique of acceptance of lesbianism in the society to include on a larger scale the acceptance of women to women homosexuals and how non-acceptance is a reflection of the long history of oppression against women; and lastly, how these behavior and thinking by the women sector is actually based on social structured determined and developed by the males. It is thus the essay's primary goal to induce action and protest against women prejudice...
The essay defines a lesbian as "the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion. She is the woman who ... acts in accordance with her inner compulsion to be a more complete and freer human being than her society ... " This passage obviously introduces the concept of being a lesbian based on a cause-and-effect definition, which is more descriptive than definitive. This is vital in conditioning the tone of the essay, which advocates for the 'liberation' of women and homosexuality among women, two important issues that arise from the long history of the oppression of patriarchy in society, even at the present period.
The essay argues that lesbianism is not an isolated issue that must be confronted by lesbians alone; rather, the issue of…
