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"Lesbian Nation, a collection of essays published by feminist writer Jill Johnston in 1973, was an important early manifesto of lesbian feminist and separatist politics. The term "lesbian nation" became a rallying cry and a powerful symbol of solidarity for early political lesbians, who sought to transform what they saw as a patriarchal society that oppressed and excluded them. Jill Johnston During the early 1970s, Jill Johnston was a writer for the bohemian New York newspaper The Village Voice. She was also an exuberant feminist theorist, and an irrepressibly outspoken lesbian. Her book, Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution, included many pieces previously published in the Voice, and was dedicated "for my mother, who should have been a lesbian and for my daughter in hopes she will be." The essays, with titles such as "There Wasn't a Dyke in the Land," "The Second Sucks and the Feminine Mystake," and "Amazons and Archedykes," articulated Johnston's incisive critiques of patriarchy and the straight feminist movement, spiced with outrageous humor, sex, and gossip. Johnston's style was brash, passionate, and eccentric. With few sentence breaks and fewer paragraph breaks, her ideas se

Author

Johnston, Jill

Publisher

New York, Simon and Schuster

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671217297

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Social_sciences

Rating

3.88 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14