ABSTRACT
In this article, Diana Majury explores the question of how most appropriately to characterize the oppression lesbians experience for the purposes of legal intervention. She critically examines the prevailing terminology of sexual 32orientation discrimination and finds it inadequate on a number of grounds, Her analysis, based in part on what she describes as a refashioned lesbian identity politics, leads her to conclude that lesbian oppression is more accurately understood as sex discrimination, frequently in conjunction with and transformed by other forms of oppression, than as any other form of legally recognized discrimination. She argues that, politically and strategically, the sex discrimination analysis of lesbian oppression offers the most promise for understanding the full depth and meaning of the widespread fear and hatred of lesbians.
