1. Christine Delphy,"Pour un féminisme matérialiste," L’Arc 61 (1975). Translated as "For a Materialist Feminism," Feminist Issues 1, no. 2 (Winter 1981)

2. Colette Guillaumin,"Race et Nature: Système des marques, idée de groupe naturel et rapports sociaux," Pluriel, no. 11 (1977). Translated as "Race and Nature: The System of Marks, the Idea of a Natural Group and Social Relationships," Feminist Issues 8, no. 2 (Fall 1988)

3. I use the word society with an extended anthropological meaning; strictly speaking, it does not refer to societies, in that lesbian societies do not exist completely autonomously from heterosexual social systems.

4. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (New York: Bantham, 1952), p. 249

5. Redstockings, Feminist Revolution (New York: Random House, 1978), p. 18

6. Andrea Dworkin, "Biological Superiority: The World’s Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea," Heresies 6:46

7. Ti-Grace Atkinson, Amazon Odyssey (New York: Links Books, 1974), p. 15

8. Dworkin, op. cit.

9. Guillaumin, op. cit.

10. de Beauvoir, op. cit.

11. Guillaumin, op. cit.

12. Dworkin, op. cit.

13. Atkinson, p. 6: "If feminism has any logic at all, it must be working for a sexless socety."

14. Rosalind Rosemberg, "In Search of Woman’s Nature," Feminist Studies 3, no. 1/2 (1975): 144

15. Ibid., p. 146

16. In an article published in L’idiot International (mai 1970), whose original title was "Pour un mouvement de libération des femmes" ("For a Women’s Liberation Movement")

17. Christiane Rochefort, Les stances à Sophie (Paris: Grasset, 1963)