"Compulsion heterosexuality" and "Lesbian existence"

I am sorry, but this article was a really hard to read and understand. I do not know if everyone got it, but I will try to something about it.
From what I understood the author was making a comparison between the norms of heterosexuality women and the place of lesbians in the society.
She said that even though homosexuality among women existed for a long time, many scholars were not willing to talk or to write about it. Even when they were studying the "lesbian phenomena," they (scholar men) were more focus on making that image of a women as a home care lesbian were badly treated or tortured by the medical profession in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Adrienne Rich wrote: "Women have become the consumer victims of various cures, therapies, and normative judgments in differences period (including the prescription to middle-class women to embody and preserve the sacredness of the home-the 'scientific' romanticization of the home itself ). That for me put women in a box. She continues by adding information about the old time: "The ironic title For Her Own Good might have referred first and foremost the economic imperative heterosexuality and marriage and to the sanctions imposed against single women and widows-both of whom have been and still are viewed as deviant. Yet in this often enlightening Marxist feminist overview of male prescriptions for female sanity and health the economics of prescriptive heterosexuality." For a long period of time, women had no power over their own money or properties. A women was suppose to be married and everything was on her husband name which made it difficult for single women and widows...they had no power. Now a day, with the work of many suffrage and feminist movement, women have a place in this society. Women in general (heterosexual and homosexual) are placed in powerful offices and they have the power/opportunity to move opinion around. We this economical freedom for women in general, especially for lesbian who were persecuted for not being in to the society "norm," were able to be as free as they are today. Again it is about people you know.