ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 discusses Lisa Diamond’s book, Sexual Fluidity and how it changed the predominant way of thinking. It also talks about how our ideas change as society changes and how our concepts of right and wrong change with it: how we have gone from viewing same-sex love between women in a positive light, to a negative one, and then back to a positive one. It discusses the secrecy in which MWLW existed, the personal growth women experienced while coming to terms with their same-sex sexuality, the diversity of MWLW and the major reasons for divorce. It touches on romantic friendships in the nineteenth-century society, considered noble and virtuous and how they were condoned them rather than viewed as disruptive of the social structure. Also discussed are the earliest societies, when families were composed of extended groups, before there was a concept of “father” as we know it today.
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