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This paper analyzes hostility toward bisexual women within lesbian feminist discourse. Based on interviews with feminist lesbians, this study uses a deconstructive approach to explicate the resonance of lesbian objections to women identifying themselves as bisexual with broader, dominant discourses on gender, sexuality, and racial purity—discourses that feminists often criticize as oppressive. The article identifies several specific discursive "techniques of neutralization" through which some lesbians construct bisexuals as "deviant others" against which the lesbian subject is defined as socially central, personally integrated, and morally pure. Broadly, the study analyzes marginalization within a marginalized community and the imbrication of dominant discourse in politically oppositional communities.

Because victimization and trauma are significant parts of women's lives, it is important for qualitative interviewers to explore and chronicle those events without raising the women's anxiety unnecessarily or revictimizing the women. This article discusses concerns related to interviewing women survivors of trauma and presents guidelines for interviewing them.