Apples and Oranges: A Woman's Journey to Sexual Identity
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0395827523 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stunning and thought-provoking Jan Clausen has been walking on the wild side of sexual preference all her life. First she came out as a lesbian, in a world that is not particularly friendly to the sexually deviant. Then she left her 12-year partnership to be with a man, a decision which alienated her from the lesbian community she had been so instrumental in building. In this book, she tries to make sense of it all, for herself and for the reader, exploring what it means to be a lesbian or not.The central idea of the book is that either/or sexuality is too confining, that women's eroticism flows in a way that. Apples & Oranges - Dawn Till Dusk Jan Clausen wrote a very intellectual and profound moving book especially for this very book, Apples & Oranges. I am very moved by the depth of feelings in which Jan Clausen described herself and her experiences. The character development is a real suspense and this book gave me thrill and also could have helped people who are in search of their sexuality. Moreover, I really could not get my hands of the book, and if I could, I would read it from dawn till dusk. A real life experience full of colours of life which brought an aspect in my real life. Very Good !. Patrick Reilly said Thought-provoking, thoughtful, and ultimately moving. Jan Clausen's memoir of her sexual and personal journey is both affecting and thought-provoking. She writes extremely well, and with no-holds-barred honesty. What fascinated me the most is her exploration of what might be called socially constructed sexual identities. In some critical ways, it matters little who is doing the constructing. Whether queer, straight, or bi (or none of the above), conventional communities all seem to want to define people according to unchangeable, constricting labels. Those who fit that community's expectations are accepted, but woe betide the perso
"Public" rather than "sexual": Clausen casts her dilemma not in personal but in social terms, remarking at one point that people want to know "which version of me is real." In this elegant, sharply focused memoir, she recalls her early sexual life with men, her absorption in radical politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and her gradual cultivation of "protolesbian sentiments." As her feminist poetry gained notice, Clausen found "the promise of inclusion in a tiny, woman-only avant-garde more enticing than membership in an undifferentiated throng." Although she presents this book as an argument against the either/or model of sexuality, it is more an elegy for that lost sense of inclusion in a beleaguered minority. When Jan Clausen, long-time lesbian activist and poet, lef
After more than a decade of "marriage" to a woman with whom she was raising a daughter, Jan Clausen fell in love with a man, stunning herself and the lesbian community to which she had been intimately connected. In time, however, Clausen grew restless in her personal relationship and uneasy with what she calls People in Groups, those enforcers of ideological purity. Through her travels, she discovered sweet escape from her familiar world, especially through her activism in Nicaragua, whose war-ravaged streets would provide the backdrop for her unpardonable act: falling in love with a West Indian male lawyer. As a couple, they immersed themselves in the city's vibrant literary sisterhood and eventually launched their own literary magazine. In the sixties, she embraced the (hetero)sexual revolution, consorting with various adol