Golden Gate University Law Review
Abstract
This Article seeks to elucidate the confusion between sexuality and violence that confounds legal treatments of intra-lesbian violence. This confusion is both explicitly and implicitly revealed in judicial decisions and legislative enactments. A distinct but intertwined task of this Article is to situate intra-lesbian violence within the development of a lesbian legal theory. It is intra-lesbian violence that makes equally untenable either a separatist lesbian legal theory (eschewing all reference to a patriarchal legal system) or an assimilationist lesbian legal theory (advocating lesbianism as an irrelevant factor in legal determinations).
Recommended Citation
Ruthann Robson,
Lavender Bruises: Intra-Lesbian Violence, Law and Lesbian Legal Theory, 20 Golden Gate U. L. Rev.
(1990).
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol20/iss3/4