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A Woman Like That : Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories

Perennial / Harper Collins
Various, Joan Larkin
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Pages
326 pp.
Language
English
Publisher
Perennial / Harper Collins
Published
2000-10-24
Year
2000
Binding
Paperback
ISBN
9780380802470
Dimensions
13.49 × 2.01 × 20.32 cm
Written by
Various and Joan Larkin

The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world.

These accounts -- sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating -- encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. 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. Extending from the 1940s to the present day, these intensely personal stories in turn reflect a unique history of the changing social mores that affected each woman's ability to determine the shape of her own life. Together they form an ornate tapestry of lesbian and bisexual experience in the United States over the past half-century.

Title
A Woman Like That : Lesbian and Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories
Author
Various, Joan Larkin
Publisher
Perennial / Harper Collins
Published
2000-10-24
Availability
In stock
Language
English
Pages
326 pp.
Binding
Paperback
ISBN-13
9780380802470
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