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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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