The dictionary is, however, only a rough draft.

A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the level of ideas, practice makes actual at the level of facts: by its very existence, lesbian society destroys the artificial (social) fact constituting women as a 'natural group.' A lesbian society pragmatically reveals that the division from men of which women have been the object is a political one . . .

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

They say that oppression engenders hate. They are heard on all sides crying hate hate.

Language casts sheaves of reality upon the social body, stamping it and violently shaping it.

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.