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This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century |
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One of the greatest civil rights success stories of the 20th century has been the movement for gay liberation, and the century's end is the perfect--in fact, irresistible--moment for summing up its enormous but uneven achievements and for plotting its future. In This Is What Lesbian Looks Like, dyke activists reflect on race, class, conflict, and differences within the movement, and the rise of the religious right. Carol Queen pieces together her erotic awakenings amid the sex wars of the early 1970s. Dorothy Allison writes about her and her partner's recent decision to move in with their son's birth father and form their "own design of a happy family." Carmen Vazquez argues against the urge to conform, claiming that we are so wounded "by the denial of belonging, by the loss of family, community, and a right to faith in whatever we understand to be god, that we accept the absurdity and the illusion that we can belong to America's family if we are 'good.'" If the collection as a whole strikes a less-than-celebratory note, it is a mark of the ground yet to cover, as well as the vigilance of those on the front lines. --Regina Marler
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