Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (No. 1)
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
Picked this up at the Book Thing of Baltimore, MD. Turns out I already have a copy of this book and don't need two. So out this copy goes into the world to find a reader who doesn't already have it!
Journal Entry 2 by KateKintail at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Sunday, July 16, 2017
Released 6 yrs ago (7/16/2017 UTC) at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA
CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
Adding to emmejo's LGBTQ+ Bookbox. Hope it finds a new reader who will enjoy it!
I read this one while waiting for the next participant's mailing address, so I'm leaving it in the box for someone else. It's a good anthology, with a variety of themes and styles. My favorite stories include:
Joanna Russ' "When It Changed," in which a successful all-female space-colony is confronted with the male crew of a spaceship, come to welcome them back to a "normal" life.
Jewelle L. Gomez' poignant "Don't Explain", set in 1959 Boston and featuring a repressed woman who finds hope in other women - and in the songs of Billie Holliday.
Beth Brant's "A Long Story", which presents parallel tales of stolen children - one in 1890, when Native American children were taken by the government, and one in 1978, when a woman has lost custody of her child because she's a lesbian.
Leslea Newman's "A Letter to Harvey Milk" is written from the viewpoint of an elderly Jewish man who's taking a writing class from a young woman who turns out to be lesbian - much to his surprise. But it's the poignant memories that her assignments invoke that make the story work.
"The Swashbuckler" by Lee Lynch is about a woman putting on full-blown dyke-drag - only to change back to unassuming-femme at the end of the day when she heads back home; it highlights the difficulties of trying to lead a split life at a time when it was dangerous to be too open.
[Update, 8/22: lynmarenjensen reported claiming this from the bookbox.)
Joanna Russ' "When It Changed," in which a successful all-female space-colony is confronted with the male crew of a spaceship, come to welcome them back to a "normal" life.
Jewelle L. Gomez' poignant "Don't Explain", set in 1959 Boston and featuring a repressed woman who finds hope in other women - and in the songs of Billie Holliday.
Beth Brant's "A Long Story", which presents parallel tales of stolen children - one in 1890, when Native American children were taken by the government, and one in 1978, when a woman has lost custody of her child because she's a lesbian.
Leslea Newman's "A Letter to Harvey Milk" is written from the viewpoint of an elderly Jewish man who's taking a writing class from a young woman who turns out to be lesbian - much to his surprise. But it's the poignant memories that her assignments invoke that make the story work.
"The Swashbuckler" by Lee Lynch is about a woman putting on full-blown dyke-drag - only to change back to unassuming-femme at the end of the day when she heads back home; it highlights the difficulties of trying to lead a split life at a time when it was dangerous to be too open.
[Update, 8/22: lynmarenjensen reported claiming this from the bookbox.)
