Abstract
Reworked via socialist feminist and ecologically motivated objectives, radical lesbian feminism offers a powerful theoretical, practical, and morally sound framework for the contemporary ecofeminist movement. First, by appealing to the strengths of earlier analyses, radical lesbian feminism offers a critique of compulsory heterosexuality. Second, what distinguishes radical lesbian feminism from liberal feminism is the former's commitment to reclaim women's experiences, desires, bodies, and lives as meaningful in themselves. An ecologically oriented radical lesbian feminism offers an avenue for comprehending that experience informed, for example, by the ever-growing threat posed by climate change. Lastly, the emancipation of lesbian identities is essentially revolutionary in that it aims to undermine institutions responsible for oppression. Such a revolution has a specifically ecological signature in that the most globally threatening configuration of oppression to date – oppression premised on access to drinkable water and breathable air – is itself the product of heteropatriarchally dominated multinational energy corporations.
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