A Woman Like That : Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (792 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0380802473 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 326 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"It had been so easy with men," she recalls, "All you had to do was bend over at the bowling alley and something would happen." Judith Katz remembers a game called "Tom and Tom" that she used to play with two little boys on her street: "Tom and Tom were human cartoon characters who ran around together and got their genitalia caught up in all kinds of elastic knots and snags." For some, Desert Hearts; for others, Road Runner. In "What Comes First," Holly Hughes refers in passing to a gay-bashing incident at her college cafeteria--someone threw a fruit cocktail at her--and
The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them - from the cautious academic to the raucous liberated femme - each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself. Together they form an ornate tapestry of lesbian and bisexual experience in the United States over the past half-century.. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world. Extending from the 1940s to the present day,
Rachel Kramer Bussel said Brilliant Writing on an Important Topic. A Woman Like That is an incredible collection of extremely intelligent and fascinating coming out stories. Each of the writers here take us on an adventure, albeit an often harrowing adventure, into the world of their youth. From Heather Lewis's tale of how her father's involvement with the Nixon White House affected her coming out to Minnie Bruce Pratt's moving tale of custody dispu. "on being different" according to gaetano catelli. i'm now more than halfway thru "A Woman Like That: Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories". i had bought it expecting (and hoping) it to be racy. but, there's very little raciness in it.what i found instead are a number of interesting 1st-person accounts of what it's like to discover that you're so far outside of the statistical norm that mainstream society can't . "A Dose of Heavy-Handed Realism?" according to A Customer. When I finished reading this, I felt like a heavy burden on my back was emerging, mostly because of the several outcomes that were portrayed in the book. It amazes me as to how much of themselves these authors are willing to reveal about themselves. Some accounts were quite disturbing, by the way, so I'll tell you now that it's not light reading. Others were all right, but the reason