ABSTRACT

This article explores the experimentalism and utopianism of Australian lesbian feminist culture during the 1970s and 1980s. I draw upon a selection of oral histories with lesbian activists to provide a more in-depth account of lesbian feminism’s expansive trajectory in Australia during this period. As I show, Australian lesbian feminists imagined and enacted radical change through their kinship and chosen-family networks, their self-sufficient remote communities, and through the autonomous spaces they established to work and create alongside each other. In doing this, they endeavoured to live in a variety of ways that, they hoped, would transform themselves and broader society.

摘要

本文探讨了 1970 年代和 1980 年代澳大利亚女同性恋主义文化的实验主义和乌托邦主义。我选择了与女同性恋活动家的口述历史，以更深入地描述女同性恋女权主义在此期间在澳大利亚的扩张轨迹。正如我所展示的，澳大利亚女同性恋者通过他们的亲属关系和选择的家庭网络、他们自给自足的偏远社区，以及通过他们建立的相互合作和创造的自治空间，想象并实施了彻底的变革。在这样做的过程中，他们努力以各种方式生活，他们希望这些方式能够改变自己和更广泛的社会。