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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1987)
11 - LAMBDA RISING BOOK REPORT SIGNIFICANT OTHERS by Armistead Maupin AT LAST! The fifth volume in the TALES OF THE CITY saga. When a women’s music festival sets up camp downriver from America’s most exclusive all-male summer retreat, havoc ensues, another battle in the war between the sexes is fought, the innocence of childhood is lost. An indelible cast of characters, a gift for mis chief, an unabashed sympathy for human frailty, all spell pure enjoy ment. F1391 Paperback $8.95 MOTHERS ON TRIAL by Phyllis Chesler This landmark book explores a growing national and international tragedy. A devastating account of good enough mothers who are being separated from their children in formal and informal custody batt les. In a series of portraits, Chesler examines the heartbreaking psychological and economic con sequences for both women and children. A pas sionate indictment of a discriminatory system and a profoundly moving celebration of maternal love and heroism under siege. Paperback $11.95 FLORIDA KEYS: A History & a Guide by Joy Williams There’s no place in the world quite like the Florida Keys, and until now, there’s never been a guide book to do them justice. The Keys are full of places to go and things to do, and Williams offers fresh, thorough, up-to-date advice and information on the best they have to offer, from exotic reefs to historic streets, down to where to stay and eat. Rich with historical fact and fiction and rife with the kind of detail every traveler needs. Paperback $9.95 DYKEVERSIONS edited by the Lesbian Writing and Publishing Collective A celebration of lesbian lives-original short fiction by talented women writers. Twenty-two different voices articulate the richness and diversity of lesbian experience. Through writing that varies from erotic to matter of fact, from angry to hilarious, they express lives as lovers, friends, kin and co- workers-lives that are, in short, multifaceted and full. Paperback $9.95 The • V""‘ “SISSY BOY SYNDROME" WWMf. (MM • i> THE SISSY BOY SYNDROME AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOMOSEXUALITY by Richard Green, MS). For the first time, the development of homosexual and heterosexual behavior is traced from childhood to adulthood. For 15 years the author studied two groups of boys and their parents. One group, ini tially interviewed at ages four to eleven, wanted to be girls. The other group of boys were conven tionally masculine. Now, three quarters of the first group are gay. all but one member of the second group are straight. Anyone curious about sexual identity will find this book unusually informative and provocative. Hardbound $40.00 HEALING AIDS NATURALLY LION WARRIORS by Laurence Badgley, MD. by Don Harrison The message of this book is that AIDS/ARC is not Concludes the trilogy of the Theban Band in a blaze necessarily fatal, and that health can be regained in of clashing swords (both metal and flesh) and persons who are infected. This is a necessary addi sweaty muscles, ritual and rape, pillage and plunder, tion to the library of anyone who wants to streng sorcery and black magic, gods and demons, and then their immune system. Dr. Badgley has been completely unbridled male passion-everything one studying and applying the methods natural could ever hope for (or used to imagine) in a sword therapy since 1972. He is the author of a of textbook, and sandal epic. ENERGY MEDICINE. A very objective review of Paperback $8.95 alternative treatments. Paperback $14.95 / A TASTE FOR TRAVEL by John Julius Norwich A wonderful anthology of “tourists” from Chaucer, to Robert Louis Stevenson, Evelyn Waugh, Mark Twain, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Noel Coward, Lady Diana Cooper. Sybille Bedford, and Henry James. Delightfully organized into chapters entitled Characters and Social Intercourse, Health and Hygiene, Customs of the Country, Bad Mom ents, etc. For actual or armchair traveller, recreates the adventure and romance travel can give us. Hardbound $22.95 DESPATCHES FROM THE FRONTIERS OF THE FEMALE MIND edited by Jen Grenn and Sarah Lefanu From farflung planets to Greenham Common, from distant futures to the here and now, the stories explore the myriad possibilities for women’s lives: women under attack, women in control, women alone and women together. With stories set in societies barely recognizable, and societies only too credible, this collection comes from the frontiers and offers a glimpse of what lies beyond. Paperback $4.95 SANCTUARY: A Journey WOMEN AND WAR by Judith McDaniel by Jean Bethke Elshtain In this book of essays, recollections, and poetry, the Old myths-flattering to both men and women-will author focuses on the idea of sanctuary--of seeking not do. They are defied by the reality of female safety-from a number of angles. “ It is ironic. Sanc bellicosity and sacrifical male love, undermined by tuary is about living dangerously. ...about taking ambiguous issues-from the role of women in combat, risks beyond the ordinary. Risks of class security or to the morals of just wars. Incorporating a vast race security. Risks of the heart. Physical risks. range of materials from history to anthropology, Taking risks has allowed me to be the person I popular culture, feminist theory, she critiques poli always wanted to be.” tical theory and opens the promise of a radical Paperback $7.95 reconstruction of politics. Hardbound $19.95 hllhui tÎH'Tvuth ir im tl kT iisiik'in » » M* TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT JERUSALEM by Ann Oakley One of today's foremost feminist writers has drawn together essays, lectures and poems written over a period of six years. The title of the book refers to a Utopia: life as we would have it, regardless of the fact we might never make it. The author believes that for women to be able to improve their condition they must first be able to tell the truth about it. Paperback $9.95 / yflWSw/ 0ftC.«MS * tj*>Wci »ilf/fft iw m ktn • N f> i T J 0 N s' CONDITIONS SCANDAL OF HER BATH by Essex Hemphill by Laurel Speer Thirty seven brilliant poems. Written by a women Once again, this award winning poet uses his voice from Tbcson who, alas, showers alone. Even though in all its modes, from the whispers meant for a the perspective is from a woman, a lesbian-feminist, lover's ear to the stentorian tones of outrage meant her observations transcend labels and use the for our racist, homophobic, sexist society. Once imagery of the world to escape it. Put succinctly, she having read Hemphill, hi* voice haunts everywhere, speaks to us all. man and woman, gay and straight. the gutter, lamp lit streets, the moon, the corridors of power. Paperback $4.00 Paperback $7.00 DREAMS AND SPECULATIONS by Paul Binding and John Horder Binding's own voice comes clearly through, shaped by the poets he loves. The poems here begin with a “Lament" for the lack of recognition of man-love and end with a calm meditation on the Yorkshire dales. Richly textured, each poem tells a story with humor or searing honesty. Horder’s deceptively sim ple poems have a humor and wit that are the outc ome of strength, understanding and tenacity. Paperback $6.95
