For my exhibition piece I am displaying the manifesto “The Woman Identified Woman” because I feel as though it offers an interesting insight into lesbian feminism in the 1970’s. In the manifesto, Radicalesbians describes how women should be defined separately from men. One of the main reasons why I chose this text for both this instagram post and for my exhibition piece is because I read a text called “Le Deuxieme Sexe” by Simone de Beauvoir in my French class last semester which discussed a very similar topic. I was curious about how the topic of the definition of women had been discussed on many different platforms as well as across the world. Although it was written significantly earlier than “The Woman Identified Woman,” the text talks about similar aspects about the definition of women needing to be separate from the definition of men
Woman Identified Woman: Radical Lesbians. n.d. TS Lesbian Herstory Archives: Subject Files: Part 6: Spinsters- Youth Folder No.:15230. Lesbian Herstory Archives. Archives of Sexuality & Gender, http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/63tTY2. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018.