by Julie Glamuzina and Alison J. Laurie Introduction by B. Ruby Rich In 1954 two New Zealand teenagers, Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, murdered Pauline's mother. In 1994 Heavenly Creatures brought the story to the screen. With an introduction to the U.S. edition by contemporary culture critic B. Ruby Rich, the book examines the sensationalized case and its aftermath.
Written with both heart and smarts, in language that speaks to the dailiness of personal experience and larger political questions, This Is What Lesbian Looks Like is the kind of reading that helps to shape a movement.
Provocative, personal--absolutely essential--these are some of the critical issues tackled in This Is What Lesbian Looks Like's two dozen essays by:
