Abstract
Abstract Contemporary feminists take a dismissive attitude toward the sex/race analogy of the 1970s. However flawed as an analysis of sex, race, and the relations between them, not least for its erasure of women of color, the sex/race analogy was a founding rhetorical strategy of the women's Liberation Movement. A history of the analogy is traced, focusing on its use as a legitimating strategy for the emergent women's Liberation Movement, as well as a literary critical/historical aspect of its use in feminist fictional re-visionings of Invisible Man. Concluding remarks examine ways the analogy continues to function in contemporary feminist fiction, most notably with a shift in the meaning of ‘sex’ from sex as gender to ‘sex’ as sexuality, with specific attention to the analogy's use in theory by women of color
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