w split in the lesbian community between women whose analysis of sexuality was based on a model of 14 Arlene Stein, ed. Sister, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation (New York: Plume, 1993). 15 Alisa Soloman, "Dykotomies: Scents and Sensibility," Arlene Stein, ed. Sister, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation (New York: Plume, 1993), 210-217. Bonnie Zimmerman interviewed by Susan Sayer in San Diego November 15th, 1994 6 oppression and victimization, and women whose model is Madonna: an emblem of autonomy and sexual taboo" (362). Featherstone finds a collection of writers who "are far more interested in their own visions of freedom than in a critique of the larger culture" (362). What is acknowledged by these writers is the commonality found "working politically with gay men in the Queer Nation/ACT UP eighties, [when] many lesbians came to appreciate and envy the sexual openness of gay male culture" (362). What is at issue for this generation is "women's sexual agency" and "sex-positive politics" (362-3). Do you think that the demand for women's sexual agency and sex-positive politics is that much different now to what was being articulated in the early 80s? That's a really good question – I've been thinking about this because I've been somewhat uncomfortable with the characterization of lesbian feminism as anti-sex because that's not how I remember it. I do think that it was based upon a critique of sexuality which to me is self evident. I mean, one has to critique the way sexuality has been constructed and to simply talk about pro-sex as if sex were some kind of essential, natural life force that all you have to do is let it flow – to me that is just the essence of liberal humanism. I think it is so odd that these notions are returning in queer theory. I think that what has happened is that the complexity of lesbian politics from the 1970s to the early 1980s has become reduced to a stereotype that is based upon a handful of writers – writers that I'm not willing to dismiss because I think they 