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Two journalists draw on more than one hundred interviews with women around the U.S. to examine the manners, mores, institutions, attitudes, beliefs, and lifestyles of lesbians throughout the country.
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出版社周刊评论
In a revealing cross-section of lesbian life in America, the authors, both journalists as well as life partners, report on their travels through various lesbian subcultures. They joined a cross-country Pride Ride of the Austin, Tex., Lesbian Avengers, a political direct-action group protesting anti-gay ordinances. They attended the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, often called the "Lesbian Woodstock," where thousands of naked or seminude women gather in the woods for a tribal experience. They witnessed a lesbian wedding ceremony at a Unitarian Universalist church in Indiana; met closeted and open lesbian golf pros at chic parties on a Palm Springs, Calif., tournament circuit; and tagged after Seattle city councilwoman Sherry Harris, the nation's first avowed black elected lesbian official. Through interviews with some 100 women, a candid picture emerges of lesbians coping with low self-esteem, gay-bashing, rejection by their families and sexual self-definition. Many interviewees feel their sexuality is genetic or inborn, while others say they have made a conscious decision to leave heterosexual lifestyles. Van Gelder is chief writer for Allure; Brandt, a New York Daily News columnist. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Journalists Van Gelder and Brandt (Are You Two . . . Together?, not reviewed) take a perceptive and thoroughly entertaining nationwide tour of '90s lesbian America. Lesbians--long rendered invisible by sexism, homophobia, and gay male culture's (real and perceived) outrageousness--have in recent years suddenly been ``discovered'' by mainstream America. Celebrities like Melissa Etheridge and k.d. lang have come out, while the media has declared lesbians ``chic.'' Meanwhile, lesbian culture itself has changed; younger lesbians are experimenting with lipstick, sex toys, and sometimes even men. Here Van Gelder and Brandt, a monogamous couple for 18 years, approach lesbians of varied ages and lifestyles with open minds and sharp wits. We meet a dominatrix in her dungeon, two ex-nuns having a church wedding, hundreds of topless women at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, several vanfuls of Lesbian Avengers, and glitzily fashionable babes at the Dinah Shore Golf Classic. These and the many, many other women introduced are articulate and eager to talk about lesbian identity, their relationship to lesbian community, the new visibility, desire, sex, butch/femme, activism, softball, and parenting. Some of the most moving moments are intergenerational. For example, Giselle, a young go-go dancer, describes the pain of going on a talk show and being pitted against an old-time activist (presumably the producers were hoping for a catfight); she explained to the host, ``Look, you would really love me to argue with my sister here. . . . She did the footwork for me. If it hadn't been for her, I wouldn't be able to sit here and be a lipstick lesbian.'' As accessible as a glossy magazine article but also smart, funny, and sexually frank. The interviews have the relaxed intimacy of a chat with old friends; lesbians, bisexuals, and curious straights should find it at once illuminating and welcoming.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
From the journalists and life partners who gave us the gay travel guide Are You Two . . . Together? (1991) comes a delightful and engrossing portrait of gay women in America. Van Gelder and Brandt focus on individuals and couples "who simultaneously illuminate many of the deeper truths about lesbian lives and disprove many shallow stereotypes." More than 100 interviews yielded views of some wildly different aspects of the lesbian political, cultural, and social scene, including the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival; the party circuit (and whipped-cream wrestling matches) at the LPGA Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Tournament in Palm Springs; and the Austin, Texas, Lesbian Avengers' 1994 cross-country ride that commemorated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall riots. In addition, Van Gelder and Brandt revisit the early days of women's music and the roots of women's festivals and drop in on the likes of a professional dominatrix in Seattle whose partner, a former corporate executive at Nintendo, now body pierces professionally. Nostalgic, funny, and thought provoking, this is hard-to-put-down stuff. Whitney Scott
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
More scary stuff from one of America's best-known suspense writers. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.