Contents : Foreword / by Allen Young [p. ix-xii] -- Part 1: Introduction : Identity and lifestyles / by Karla Jay [p. 1-4] -- Lesbian sexuality : an unfinished saga / by Nina Sabaroff [p. 5-15] -- What is a dyke to do : and what the dyke is doing / by Jeanne Córdova [p. 16-21] -- With all due respect : in defense of all lesbian lifestyles / by Jane Rule [p. 22-26] -- On human identity and gay identity : a liberationist dilemma / by Allen Young [p. 27-34] -- Surviving gay coupledom / by Karla Jay [p. 35-43] -- Some thoughts on monogamy / by Julie Lee [p. 44-51] -- Living alone / by George Whitmore [p. 52-61] -- The Bi-sexual potential / by Laura Della Rosa [p. 62-64] -- A Bi-sexual offers some thoughts on fences / by Jem [p. 65-67] -- Butch or fem? : the third world lesbina's dilemma / by anonymous [p. 68-69] -- Search for words / by Konstantin Berlandt [p. 70-72] -- Entries in a journal / Gary Alinder [p. 73-82] -- Part 2: Introduction : Survival in a hostile world / by Allen Young [p. 83-88] -- How to come out without being thrown out / by Jeanne Códova [p. 89-95] -- Thriving decloseted in rural academe / by Louie Crew [96-102] -- Out in the workplace / by Don Mager [p. 103-104] -- Bundles of twigs in New Hampshire : a high school teachers' report / by Robert LaRiviere [p. 105-112] -- Hookers : queer fish / by Catherine Nossa [p. 113-116] -- Hustler : a boy for all seasons / an interview between a hustler [John] and his customer [Phillip] by two people from "Fag Rag" [Louis and Andy] [p. 117-124] -- Lesbian mother / Jeanne Perreault [p. 125-127] -- Faggot father / by Don Mager [p. 128-134] -- The Life and death of a gay prisoner / by Edward E. Loftin and "Join Hands" [p. 135-144] -- Gay couples and straight law / by Tom Hurley [p. 145-151] -- Lesbians and the law / by Karla Dobinski [p. 152-160] -- Pocket legal guide for gay people / by Chicago Gay People's Legal Committee [p. 161-168] -- Part 3: Introduction : Creating community and helping ourselves / by Karla Jay [p. 169-172] -- Can men and women work together? : a forum composed of Karla Jay, Allen Young with Morty Manford and Rose Jordan [p. 173-194] -- Some thoughts on how gay men relate to women / by Allen Young [p. 195-204] -- Oppression is big business : scrutinizing gay therapy / by Karla Jay [p. 205-210] -- The Spirit is liberationist but the flesh is ..., or, you can't always get into bed with your dogma / by Karla Jay [p. 211-214] -- Aging / by Riki [p. 215-217] -- Nigger in the woodpile / by Thomas Dotton [p. 218-226] -- We'd better all hang together or surely we'll all hang separately / by Rita Mae Brown [p. 227-231] -- Preserving the past for the future / by June Rook [p. 232-235] -- Getting it together journalism : a view of "Fag Rag" / by Charley Shively [p. 236-247] -- Power to gay people : a Los Angeles experiment in community action / by Richard Nash [p. 248-255] -- Information on VD for gay women and men / by Julian Bamford [p. 256-266] -- Bottoms up : an in-depth look at VD and your asshole / by Edward Guthmann [p. 267-276] -- Alcohol use and abuse in the gay community : a view toward alternatives / by Kevin J. McGirr [p. 277-288] -- Contributors [p. 289-292] -- Copyright bibliography [p. iv and p 293-296]
Ladies almanack : showing their signs and their tides ; their moons and their changes ; the seasons as it is with them ; their eclipses and equinoxes ; as well as a full record of diurnal and nocturnal distempers
edited and with new introductions by Karla Jay and Allen Young
foreword by Cindy Patton
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place
New York, NY
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
c1978
c1994
Physical Description
lii, [21]-498 p.
Condition
Good
ISBN
0814742173
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Contents : Foreword / by Cindy Patton [p. ix-xxviii] -- Introduction / by Karla Jay [p. xxix-xxxix] -- Introduction / by Allen Young [p. xli-lii] -- Part 1: Companion introductions [p. 21] -- No longer the court jesters / by Allen Young [p. 23-47] -- No man's land / by Karla Jay [p. 48-65] -- Part 2: Sex and the pursuit of pleasure [p. 67] -- Queen for a day : a stranger in paradise / by Rita Mae Brown [p. 69-76] -- The Bath life gets respectable / by Arthur Bell [p. 77-84] -- Forum on sado-masochism / by Ian Young, John Stoltenberg. Lyn Rosen, and Rose Jordan [p. 85-117] -- Phantasy revolution / by Charley Shively [p. 118-132] -- Part 3: Watering holes : today and yesterday [p. 133] -- Sexual anarchy / by Brandon Judell [p. 135-139] -- Why I'm not dancing / by Felice Newman [p. 140-145] -- The Cleveland bay scene in the forties / by John Kelsey [p. 146-149] -- Missing the Ports O Call / by Jim Jackman [p. 150-154] -- Part 4: Dance and music [p. 155] -- Toeing the line : in search of the gay male image in contemorary classicla ballet / by Graham Jackson [p. 157-170] -- Dance liberation / by Rob Dobson [p. 171-1881] -- Images of gays in rock music / by Tommi Avicolli [p. 182-194] -- The Growing business behind women's music / by Lynne D. Shapiro [p. 195-200] -- Judy Garland and others : notes on idolization and derision / by Michael Bronski [p. 201-212] -- Part 5: Visual arts and the theatre [p. 213] -- Closets in the museum : homophobia and art history / by James M. Saslow [p. 215-127] -- Weaving a whole life / by Gerard Brender à Brandis [p. 228-229] -- Gay theatre : gays in the marketplace vs. gays for themselves / by Don Shewey [p. 230-245] -- Gay theatre in the "real world" / by George Whitmore [p. 246-254] -- Part 6: Purple prose and violet verse [p. 255] -- The X-rated bibliographer : a spy in the house of sex / by Karla Jay [p. 257-261] -- Some pulp Sappho / by Fran Koski and Maida Tilchen [p. 262-274] -- The Poetry of male love / by Ian Young [p. 275-292] -- Part 7: Word power! [p. 293] -- Lesbian-feminist comedy : dyke humor out of the closet / by Sharon McDonald [p. 295-298] -- Mother wit : tongue in cheek / by Julia Penelope Stanley and Susan W. Robbins [p. 299-307] -- A Queer by any other name would smell as sweet / by Michael Riordon [p. 308-312] -- Part 8: Young and gay! [p. 313] -- Memoirs of a lesbian's lesbian daughter / by Blynn Garnett [p. 315-324] -- Growing up gay : where were you in '62 / by Stuart Byron [p. 325-331] -- I was the dyke at my high school reunion / by Loretta Lottman [p. 332-341] -- Gay youth and the question of consent / by Gerald Hannon [p. 342-364] -- Part 9: Challenging macho norms [p. 365] -- The Boys in the barracks / by Andrew Kopkind [p. 367-384] -- Sports and the macho male / by John Mitzel [p. 385-395] -- The Politics of dress / by David Holland [p. 396-402] -- Part 10: Rites of passage [p. 403] -- A Letter of M / by Andrea Dworkin [p. 405-411] -- Neither profit nor salvation / by Barbara Grier [p. 412-420] -- Grandmothers / by Jane Rule [p. 421-423] -- Aging is a state of mind / by Julie Lee [p. 424-429] -- Part 11: Changes and visions [p. 431] -- Learning from lesbian separatism / by Charlotte Bunch [p. 433-444] -- A Question of culture : mirror without image / by Rose Jordan [p. 445-451] -- A Journey to the end of meetings / by Karla Jay [p. 452-457] -- Blacks and gay liberation / by Jon L. Clayborne [p. 458-465] -- Three for the price of one : notes from a gay black feminist / by Anita Cornwell [p. 466-476] -- Practical economics for a women's community / by Nancy Groswitz [p. 477-483] -- Second five-year plan / by Fag Rag Collective [p. 484-491]
Cutting edge : lesbian life and literature ; series editor, Karla Jay
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes short biographies of the contributors.
Contents : On slippery ground : an introduction / by Karla Jay [p. 1-11] -- Part 1: Reading/writing/teaching the lesbian body [p. 13] -- Not tonight, dear, I'm deconstructing a headache : confessions of a lesbian sex therapist / by Marny Hall [p. 15-27] -- Pedagogy, jurisprudence, and finger-fucking : lesbian sex in a law school classroom / by Ruthann Robson [p. 28-39] -- Tongues or fingers / by Anna Livia [p. 40-52] -- Staging the erotic / by Elizabeth Meese and Sandy Huss [p. 53-61] -- Give Joan Chen by phone number anytime / by Kitty Tsui [p. 62-70] -- between the sheets : my sex life in literature / by Donna Allegra [p. 71-81] -- Part 2: Qu(e)eries into people, theories, and deeds [p. 83] -- Camille Paglia and the problematics of sexuality and subversion / by S. Elaine Craghead [p. 85-100] -- Taking on the phallus / by Colleen Lamos [p. 101-124] -- Recasting receptivity : femme sexualities / by Ann Cvetkovich [p. 125-146] -- Clits in court : "Salome", sodomy, and the lesbian "sadist" / by Jennifer Travis [p. 147-163] -- The Regulation of lesbian sexuality through erasure : the case of Jennifer Saunders / by Anna Marie Smith [p. 164-179] -- Part 3: Lesbian erotics in film and literature [p. 181] -- "She must be seeing things" differently : the limits of butch/femme / by Karen Quimby [p. 183-195] -- "Dracula's daughter" : cinema, hypnosis, and the erotics of lesbianism / by Bonnie Burns [p. 196-211] -- To tough the mother's c(o)untry : siting Audre Lord's erotics / by Sharon P. Holland [p. 212-226] -- Abrotica : the lesbian erotic and the erotic abject in Anaïs Nin's "House of incest" / by Johanna Blakely [p. 227-240] -- Encoding bi-location: Sylvia Townsend Warner and the erotics of dissimulation / by Jane Garrity [p. 241-268] -- For further reading [p. 269-279] -- Contributors [p. 280-283]
Feminist Crosscurrents ; series editor, Kathleen Barry
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes short biographies of the contributors.
Includes Canadian authors.
Contents : Introduction / by Joanne Glasgow and Karla Jay [p. 1-10] -- Part 1: Writers on their work [p. 11] -- An imaginitive collectivity of writers and readers / by Valerie Miner [p. 13-27] -- Falling between the cracks / by Mary Meigs [p. 28-38] -- Cruising the libraries / by Lee Lynch [p. 39-48] -- Insider/outsider coming of age / by Maureen Brady [p. 49-58] -- The Elusive "seamless whole" : a biographer treats (or fails to treat) lesbianism / by Noel Riley Fitch [p. 59-69] -- Theorizing lesbian : writing -- a love letter / by Elizabeth Meese [p. 70-87] -- Part 2: Lesbian encodings, decodings [p. 89] -- Heterosexual plots and lesbian subtexts : towards a theory of lesbian narrative space / by Marilyn R. Farwell [p. 91-103] -- The Pea that duty locks : lesbian and feminist-heterosexual readings of Emily Dickinson's poetry / by Paula Bennett [p. 104-125] -- "The Dark eye beaming" : female friendship in George Eliot's fictions / by Bonnie Zimmerman [p. 126-144] -- My Antonia, JIm Burden, and the dilemma of the lesbian writer / by Judith Fetterley [p.145-163] -- Sapphistory : the Woolf and the well / by Jane Marcus [p. 164-179] -- Part 3: Lesbian themes, Sources [p. 181] -- Expatriate Sapphic modernism : entering literary history / by Shari Benstock [p. 183-203] -- The Outsider among the expatriates : Djuna Barnes' satire on the ladies of the "Almanack" / by Karla Jay [p. 204-216] -- H.D. and A.C. Swineburne : decadence and Sapphic modernism / by Cassandra Laity [p. 217-240] -- What's a nice lesbian like you doing in the church of Torquemada? : Radcliffe Hall and other catholic converts / by Joanne Glasgow [p. 241-254] -- Making the world safe for the mission position : images of the lesbian in post-World War II America / by Kate Adams [p. 255-274] -- The "Queen B" figure in black literature / by SDiane A. Bogus [p. 275-290] -- A Revolutionary signifier : "The Lesbian body" / by Namascar Shaktini [p. 291-303] -- Nicole Brossard : a differential equation of lesbian love / by Alice Parker [p. 304-329] -- Myth and community in recent lesbian autobiographical fiction / by Yvonne M. Klein [p. 330-338] -- The Journey back to female roots : a Laguna Pueblo model / by Annette Van Dyke [p. 339-354] -- Core of the apple : mother-daughter fusion/separation in three recent lesbian plays / by Rosemary Curb [p. 355-376] -- Afterword : lesbian studies in the 1990s / by Catherine R. Stimpson [p. 377-382] -- Select bibliography [p. 383-393]
Includes bibliographical references and directory.
Contents : Forward / by Karla Jay [p. 1-2] -- Part 1: Join us! an introduction to gay liberation [p. 3] -- Christopher Street liberation day, June 28, 1970 [poem] / by Fran Winant [p. 4-6] -- Out of the closets, into the streets / by Allen Young [p. 6-31] -- Gay is good / by Martha Shelley [p. 31-34] -- Dear mom / by Virginia Hoeffding [p. 34-37] -- My soul vanished from sight : a California saga of gay liberation / by Konstantin Berlandt [p. 38-56] -- Part 2: Gay people vs. the media [p. 57] -- The Closet syndrome / by Stuart Byron [p. 58-65] -- A Gay critique of modern literary criticism / by Karla Jay [p. 66-68] -- An Open letter to Tennessee Williams / by Mike Silverstein [p. 69-72] -- Queer books / by John Murphy [p. 72-94] -- Part 3: The Man's law [p. 95] -- Happy birthday, baby butch / by Jaye V. Poltergeist [p. 96-99] -- Sissy in prison / an interview with Ron Vernon [p. 99-112] -- Rapping with a street transvestite revolutionary / in interview with Marcia Johnson [p. 112-120] -- Part 4: Gay people vs. the "Professionals" [p. 121] -- Lesbians and the health care system / by Radicalesbians Health Collective [p. 122-141] -- Gay liberation meets the shrinks / by Gary Alinder [p. 141-145] -- A Lesflet for the American Medical Association / by Chicago Gay Liberation Front [p. 145-147] -- Surviving psychotherapy / by Christopher Z. Hobson [p. 147-153] -- The Orderly / by Robbie Skeist [p. 153-157] -- The Anthropological perspective / by The Red Butterfly [p. 157-165] -- Gay bureaucrats : what are they doing to you? / byMike Silverstein [p. 165-170] -- Part 5: Lesbians and the Women's Liberation movement [p. 171] -- The Women-identified women / by Radicalesbians [p. 172-177] -- Realesbians and politicalesbians / by Gay Revolution Party Women's Caucus [p. 177-181] -- A Letter from Mary / by Mary [p. 182-185] -- Take a lesbian to lunch / by Rita Mae Brown [p. 185-194] -- Hanoi to Hoboken, a round trip ticket / by Rita Mae Brown [p. 195-201] -- Lesbians and the ultimate liberation of women / by Gay Liberation Front Women (New York City) [p. 201-204] -- Part 4: Cuba gay as the sun [p. 205] -- The Cuban revolution and gay liberation / by Allan Young [p. 206-228] -- On the Venceremos Brigade : a forum [p. 228-244] -- Letter from Cuban gay people to the North American gay liberation movement [p. 244-246] -- Declaration by the First National Congress on education and culture / excerpted from GRANMA, daily organ of the Communist Party of Cuba [p. 246-250] -- Part 7: Sex and roles [p. 251] -- Gay revolution and sex roles / by Third World Gay Revolution (Chicago) and Gay Liberation Front (Chicago) [p. 252-259] -- Smash phallic imperialism / by Katz [p. 259-262] -- On sex roles and equality / by N.A. Diaman [p. 262-264] -- Cruising : games men play / by Perry Brass [p. 264-265] -- The Fairy princess exposed / by Craig Alfred Hanson [p. 266-269] -- The Politics of my sex life / by Mike Silverstein [p. 270-275] -- Portrait of the young lesbian as a young dyke / by Karla Jay [p. 275-277] -- Will you still need me when I'm 64? / by Ralph S. Schaffer [p. 278-280] -- Part 8: Moving together [p. 281] -- My gay soul / by Gary Alinder [p. 282-283] -- Looking at women [a poem] / by Fran Winant [p. 284-290] -- Leaving the gay men behind / by Radicalesbians (New York City) [p. 290-293] -- Notes on gay male consciousness-raising / by A Gay Male Group [p. 293-301] -- Somewhere in the right direction : testimony of my experience in a gay male collective / by John Knoebel [p. 301-315] -- Problems of an inter-racial relationship / by Marlene [p. 315-317] -- Epistle to Tsha / by Rita Mae Brown [p. 318] -- Elitism / by Del Whan [p. 318-323] -- Viewpoint of an anti-sexist Marxist / by Sandy Blixton [p. 323-328] -- Part 9: Manifestos [p. 329] -- A Gay manifesto / by Carl Wittman [p. 330-341] -- Gay Revolution Party manifesto [p. 342-345] -- Working paper for the Revolutionary People's Constituional Convention / by Chicago Gay Revolution [p. 346-352] -- I.D., leadership and violence / by Charles P. Thorp [p. 352-363] -- What we want, what we believe / by Third World Revolution (New York City) [p. 363-368] -- A Selected gay bibliography [p. 369-374] -- An international directory of gay organizations [p. 375-403]
