%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Sleeping with the enemy¡¯: Non
%A Karin E Wandrei
%J Sexualities
%@ 1461-7382
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1363460717750074
%X Many white American women who came out as lesbians in the 1970s in the context of the feminist movement saw their lesbianism as part of their core identity. A tenet of that movement was that sexual/romantic involvements with men were incompatible with being a ¡®true¡¯ lesbian. Women who did were often ostracized. Changes in the lesbian-feminist community and larger society, including the viability and visibility of bisexuality and non-monogamy, have allowed some of these women to explore sexual and romantic involvement with men while holding onto the feminist aspects of their lesbian identification because of non-monogamy¡¯s feminist potential. This analysis supports the work of van Anders in critiquing the primacy of genital configuration as a means of defining sexual orientation
%K Bisexuality
%K feminism
%K lesbianism
%K non-monogamy
%K polyamory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1363460717750074