Lesbianism and Sexual Identity Analytical Essay by Nicky

This paper discusses how the conservatism of America's identity has often come to clash violently with the progressivism of its ideology, with the end result, optimistically speaking, of bringing the two sides into closer congress with one another. In particular, it looks at how the lesbian community is currently very deeply engaged in a struggle for acknowledgement under a more sociologically sound identity. The paper examines how the lesbian identity is subject today to ongoing debate, with internal divisions creating oppositional factions of the lesbian community, each guided by its own interpretation of the impetus placed upon the whole of the group and its individual cells to resist mainstream social and political patterns that apply necessarily negative connotations to female sexuality, femininity and lesbianism.