ABSTRACT
In the Conclusion all of the key areas touched upon in the book are outlined and aligned together. By giving an insight to the relationships key academics have had it is possible to see how political and personal their research really was. In doing so it shows how influential the social world is on apparently objective scientific practice and how some practices, like the Rorschach ink blot test, have been used for multiple purposes. This has ranged from homophobic detection to de-pathologising liberation. This chapter also draws the history up into the 21st century. Whilst recognising the dramatic shifts in legal and social rights for queer people in Britain, it also highlights the areas which still require significant activist attention. In telling such a messy queer feminist British history, the apparently strict boundary between academia and activism is questioned. It is argued that this border is blurrier and more like the edges of an ink blot than they might first appear. In expanding the metaphor of the ink blot it is also suggested that doing history is very much the same; it is what we see in the ambiguous history which leads to us to write certain narratives. This book therefore represents one queer feminist interpretation of this particular ink blot history.
