Abuse by Any Other Name: Feminism, Difference, and Intralesbian Violen
It is now somewhat trite to observe that feminist theory, in the legal realm as elsewhere, suffers from a certain element of so-called “essen-tialism.” What is meant by this, partly, is that feminism has mistakenly posited a “universalized” woman, for whom gender is her primary determinant, and whose experience “as…