Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About The First Woman in Their Life
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1555834086 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 302 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Poa Poa is Livng Breathing Light" is Kitty Tsui's record of finding such a strong female character in her grandmother. Francis" suggests that the mother is the primary object of all kinds of contradictory love: love as a tease, as an unexpected caress, as beauty, as a scream. In her introduction to this anthology, Nisa Donnelly describes the particular bond between mothers and their lesbian daughters: "We are the women our mothers warned us about and, at the same time, the women they made us." This collection examines the complexities of a lesbian's first woman-to-woman relationship. L. Morrison. Linda Smukler's poem "St. --Rebecca Brown. Among the other contributors to this book are Judy Grahn, Hillary Mullins, Donna Allegra and newcomers Terrie Akemi-Hamazaki and G. Lucy Jane Bledsoe's essay "Se
A great collection for all Lesbiansor all Mothers This anthology contains writings from a diverse group of women with varying perceptions about the nurturing they received. You can feel the emotion of the writers from intense love and gratitude to regretful anger. This work proves that we are molded by how we experience our class, race, gender and relationships with our mothers. Check out my favorite - "Columbus Day Revisited" - by Judith K. Witherow.. I recommend it to everyone and her mother A Customer It was not what I expected and yet included everything I needed. No matter what your relationship with your mother was like or what you hoped it would be like, there is something in this book for everyone. Tears wrapped in laughter. And vice versa. A fast and fascinating read. I couldn't put it down and once I finished it, I started again. I recommend it to everyone and their mothers.
Nearly 30 women, including some of the best-known lesbian writers in the country, contributed to this remarkable ode to mothers with memoirs that are astonishing in their diversity and truth. These reminiscences prove that raising a child is a lifelong process that continues in spite of distance, estrangement, and even death.