Academic bullying amongst lesbians
1975
Bridget said that during the mid
seventies to mid eighties, “There was a great deal of academic bullying in the
lesbian feminist movement, there was quite a lot of repression by people who
were the most vocal and the most literate, on those that weren’t. I know the
people at the bottom of the pecking order felt quite intimidated, there were
several key figures, and we’re coming on to people now, not the actual people,
but people of the same type as Bea Campbell, or Germaine Greer, that same sort
of overbearing presence, but they were still part of the movement, but not the
sort that were down the Old Mo. But there was a nucleus of quite academic,
university graduate feminists there. Barbara came to lesbianism by the feminist
route, but a lot of time everyone got on well and mucked in, but there were a
lot of tensions”.
Contributed by: Barbara Carter, 53, Bridget Malin, 62