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An emphasis on specificity works to counter this situation by mandating that all articulate and carefully examine their position in various economies of power. Although specificity mandates conscious location of the self, it also gestures to that in each of us which is irreducible to categories. It suggests that even after we have practiced a politics that acknowledges certain categories of difference, there will always be more to us than those categories. We are specific individuals as well as members of multiple groups.
21 For example, Radicalesbians in 1970 articulated lesbianism as a political identity, as "woman-identification" rather than "simply" a sexual identity. This founding gesture of lesbian feminism in some sense made lesbianism into something it had not previously been and located lesbians as political radicals regardless of their particular individual political consciousnesses. Adrienne Rich's 1980 essay "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" furthered this articulation; in contrast with other discourses that located lesbianism as "homosexuality"—an identity shared with gay men—Radicalesbians, Rich, and other lesbian feminists insisted on lesbianism as female experience, as ultimately removed from any men.
It suggests that the question we must ask is not simply whether people are "the same" or "different" within a particular structure, but how they are similar or different and what the implications of that are. Getting specific thus continues the socialist feminist quest to understand the relations between economic systems and other structures while eliminating the expectation that an adequate theory will cover every instance, every aspect of life. It also allows for a multiplicity of levels of systems, from overarching macrostructures such as capitalism to more local, specific structures such as the organization of a particular barrio school, without simply reducing the latter to an instance of the former.