Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian And Gay Short Stories

Politics & Social Sciences

Zahava, Irene

Social Sciences

Routledge

George Stambolian, Terri de la Pena, Audre Lorde, Paul Monette, Edmund White, and Jaime Manrique are just six of the writers represented in this collection of forty contemporary lesbian and gay short stories. Gathered together for the first time in one volume are writings by both lesbians and gay men who represent a multiplicity of ethnic and racial backgrounds. Irene Zahava has compiled a unique and necessary collection, selecting stories for their artistic power and for their treatment of topics that are significant in lesbian and gay life and politics today. An alternative thematic table of contents allows the reader to understand lesbian and gay life according to its most culturally and politically significant themes: childhood/growing up; coming out/finding community; families; oppression/resistance; bisexuality; relationships/friendships; AIDS; and aging/dying.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Westview Press

Feminism 3: The Third Generation In Fiction

Feminism3 is a powerful multicultural collection of short stories by third generation” Anglo, Latina, Asian, and Black feminists from all socioeconomic and religious heritages. This gathering of young authors covers most major issues in a young woman's life: awakening sexuality, biological and psychological landmarks, family rejection and rebellion, child abduction and abuse, gender identification, sexual harassment, and passionate romance. The broad-ranging and ever-changing theme of growing up female runs through this book like a multicolored thread.In this volume, one discovers the wonderful story Selway” from Pam Houston's collection Cowboys Are My Weakness in which white-water rafting and love's mysteries rise to an overflowing crescendo; youthful innocence clashes with cynical experience in April Sinclair's excerpt from Coffee Will Make You Black; and Ann, Sarah Schulman's young female protagonist, looked down her body one fine morning to discover that in the night she had grown a penis! These are just a few of the predicaments in which the many women in this collection find themselves. The stories are rich, the writing is exquisite, and the diversity is wide. Feminism3 provides a lovingly deep look into the issues that face all young women in the process of growing up. By addressing in all its fullness the question How does a young woman learn about the possible ways to be in this world?” it instructs in the natural evolution of feminism from its origins. It is a wonderful collection for general readers and scholars alike.

Literary

Feminism3 is a powerful multicultural collection of short stories by third generation” Anglo, Latina, Asian, and Black feminists from all socioeconomic and religious heritages. This gathering of young authors covers most major issues in a young woman's life: awakening sexuality, biological and psychological landmarks, family rejection and rebellion, child abduction and abuse, gender identification, sexual harassment, and passionate romance. The broad-ranging and ever-changing theme of growing up female runs through this book like a multicolored thread.In this volume, one discovers the wonderful story Selway” from Pam Houston's collection Cowboys Are My Weakness in which white-water rafting and love's mysteries rise to an overflowing crescendo; youthful innocence clashes with cynical experience in April Sinclair's excerpt from Coffee Will Make You Black; and Ann, Sarah Schulman's young female protagonist, looked down her body one fine morning to discover that in the night she had grown a penis! These are just a few of the predicaments in which the many women in this collection find themselves. The stories are rich, the writing is exquisite, and the diversity is wide. Feminism3 provides a lovingly deep look into the issues that face all young women in the process of growing up. By addressing in all its fullness the question How does a young woman learn about the possible ways to be in this world?” it instructs in the natural evolution of feminism from its origins. It is a wonderful collection for general readers and scholars alike.

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Crossing Pr

Water Spirit

Religion & Spirituality

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Short Stories & Anthologies

Crossing Press

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History & Criticism

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Contemporary

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