The Persistent Desire: A Femme-butch ReaderSurveys a decade of the attempt to reconstruct and understand the meaning and value of butch-femme relations for the contemporary lesbian, drawing on oral history, fiction, poetry, and fantasy |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis anthology of stories, poems, and nonfiction accounts pays homage to a host of femme and butch lesbian relationships that have flourished over four decades. The narrators recount their experiences ... Read full review
Contents
Contents | 13 |
From the Diary of Marge McDonald 19311986 | 124 |
1959 Merril Mushroom | 133 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Persistent Desire: A Femme-butch Reader |
| Editor | Joan Nestle |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Alyson Publications, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 1555831907, 9781555831905 |
| Length | 503 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / General |
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