by Yvonne Zipter "A pioneering examination of one of the most common and beloved elements of North American lesbian culture--a thoughtful, passionate piece of work." (Women in Libraries) Yvonne Zipter, journalist and jock, covers all the bases--on and off the playing field.
by Claudia Brenner with Hannah Ashley In May 1988 a horrific shooting attack left 28-year-old Rebecca Wight dead. Her partner, Claudia Brenner, was seriously wounded. In this profoundly personal, emotionally riveting, politically energizing account of the murder and its aftermath, the author writes about her path to recovery and activism.
Marcia Freedman's lively first-person account of her fourteen years in Israel, the story of a modern Jewish woman's longing to be at home in the homeland of the Jews. Founder of the women's liberation movement, former member of the Knesset, she examines the contradictions between idealistic vision and flawed reality in her adopted country.
Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales are mother and daughter--feminists and radicals, Puerto Rican and American and Jewish--patterning their voices into a call and response across generations, geography, politics, and cultures. "Both authors are literary, serious, socially concerned and passionate...." (Publishers Weekly)
by Judith McDaniel Moving from addiction and alienation to greater self-empowerment, author and activist Judith McDaniel travels the road to recovery from alcoholism in this insightful, revealing book. As women in increasing numbers struggle to come to terms with chemical dependencies, Metamorphosis opens up new space for both personal and political growth.
by Mab Segrest Anti-Klan organizer Mab Segrest gives us a down-home insider's look at the South she lives in, struggles with, and loves, in this "Highly Recommended" collection. "As insightful as they are delightful, touching on Southern culture, literary criticism, feminism, lesbianism, racism, childhood, the art of teaching...." (Booklist)
Moving from the intimate space of a cancer patient's hospital bed to the national sacrifice zones of atomic bomb test sites, Sandra Steingraber sets out to find Ground Zero in order to tell "the whole story of what happened. The author is a gifted young poet, a survivor of cancer in her twenties, a biologist with an environmental bent committed to cancer activism.
by Riki Anne Wilchins This is the book that may take the discussion of gender over the top. In a voice that is by turns outraged, outrageous, sad, and hilarious, the cofounder of Transexual Menace weaves theory and personal experience into a compelling story of self-discovery. Read My Lips will change the way you think about bodies, sex, and gender — yours and everyone else's.
The wild terrain of personal and political change is explored in this vivid, lyrical collection. "Pratt's 11 polished, articulate essays offer a striking example of everyday philosophy at work: a feminist assessing her experiences and learning form them." (Publishers Weekly) Essential reading by this award-winning lesbian author, demonstrating that "the will to change is the true rebellion."
A book of creative nonfiction about getting better. Barrie Jean Borich leads us down a winding trail of memories — some real, some imagined, some dreamt — all true. Sex, alcoholism, cultural identity, lesbianism, and the landscape of a rebuilt life are boldly explored in these acute narratives.
Writing about the complexities of growing up in a working-class commercial fishing family, working as a nontraditional laborer in the physical trades, laboring in a marriage and then coming out, emerging from the assumption of excellent health into the reality of chronic illness--and through it all loving the ones you love, being sustained by them.
Held captive by the Nicaraguan contras as a member of a Witness for Peace delegation, Judith McDaniel explores the idea of sanctuary. Her focus includes El Salvadoran refugees and Big Mountain protesters, bag ladies in Times Square, Black children in Albany, and Peace Camp women. "A passionate, unorthodox celebration of women's empowerment." (Library Journal)
by Dorothy Allison In this compelling collection of essays and autobiographical narratives, the author probes her experience of being a lifelong feminist activist, a controversial sex radical, and an expatriate Southern writer with an attitude. Winner of the 1995 Lambda Literary Award (Lesbian Studies) and the 1995 American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award.
Using words and photographic images as her tools, Margaret Randall painstakingly works her way through the process of reclamation as she unearths and comes to terms with her grandfather's sexual assault on her as an infant. Her book is an affirmation--a tribute to her own grit, her politics, and the support of loving friends and a gifted therapist.
by Victoria A. Brownworth Widely published and highly controversial lesbian journalist Victoria A. Brownworth's revealing collection explores the contours of her personal and political radicalism. Lesbian, feminist, writer, Catholic, lefist, and activist--she probes her own political roots and raises questions about what it means to be living a radical life in an increasingly neoconservative society.
by Cherríe Moraga A jewel of a book by this celebrated Chicana lesbian writer chronicling "one small human being's struggle for survival," her 21/2-pound premature baby boy. While the specifics belong to Moraga and her loved ones, the tale is told in common with every woman who has experienced the wonder and terror of pregnancy, the trauma of a child's near-death.
A book of poetic maps, tracing the search in a violent world for a place to live as a lesbian, a place to make art and make love, to savor life as delicious and sensual as the center of a peach. The writing is grounded in the author's love of women--poems written to friends, mother, lovers, and other writers.
by Andrea Freud Loewenstein Part reconstructed autobiography, part truthful short story, part coming-of-age-coming-out novel, this is a "poignant collection of related stories" (Publishers Weekly) about a high-strung, assimilated Jewish childhood. The author recreates turbulent years spent growing up under the scowling portrait of Sigmund Freud, the family patriarch.
