The Girls Next Door ebook

by Pamela Robin Brandt,Lindsy Van Gelder

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. What Tom Wolfe did for astronauts and Roger Angell did for baseball, journalists Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt do for lesbians in this landmark book

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. What Tom Wolfe did for astronauts and Roger Angell did for baseball, journalists Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt do for lesbians in this landmark book. Long misperceived as a separatist coven.

Lindsy Van Gelder is a chief writer for Allure, and Pamela Robin Brandt writes a weekly column for the New York Daily News. Veteran journalists, they are life partners as well as frequent writing partners whose previous work together includes numerous articles and a prizewinning gay and lesbian travel book, Are You Two.

Journalists Van Gelder and Brandt (Are You Two. Into the Heart of Lesbian America. by Lindsy Van Gelder & Pamela Robin Brandt. Lesbians-long rendered invisible by sexism, homophobia, and gay male culture's (real and perceived) outrageousness-have in recent years suddenly been & by mainstream America. Celebrities like Melissa Etheridge and . lang have come out, while the media has declared lesbians &. Get weekly book recommendations

By Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt.

By Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with women around the country, and on their own keen wits and eyes, Van Gelder and Brandt have composed an unprecedented portrait of how gay women today - "born" and "made," lipsticked and flannel-shirted alike - think, feel, love, and live.

The Girls Next Door book. What Tom Wolfe did for astronauts and Roger Angell did for baseball, journalists Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt do for lesbians in this landmark book

The Girls Next Door book. Long misperceived as a separatist coven, a default option, or a sort of ladies' auxiliary to the gay men's movement, lesbian life has achieved a new visibility in the past few years.

Van Gelder, Lindsy; Brandt, Pamela Robin.

Van Gelder, Lindsy; Pamela Robin Brandt (1997). Simon & Schuster. p. 38. ^ Newton, David E. (2009). Gay and lesbian rights: a reference handbook. 229. ^ a b Ring, Trudy (December 17, 2019). National Center for Lesbian Rights Leader on Making a Movement for All". Download as PDF. Printable version.

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The Girls Next Door : Into the Heart of Lesbian America. by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt.

Computerization and Controversy, 2nd Ed. 1991. Lindsy Van Gelder, Pamela Robin Brandt. I "met" Joan in the late spring of 1983, shortly after I first hooked my personal computer up to a modem and entered the strange new world of online communications. Like me, Joan was spending a grea. More). Are you two - together? : a gay and lesbian travel guide to Europe. The grand tour of Europe - this time of special interest to lesbians and gay men.

What Tom Wolfe did for astronauts and Roger Angell did for baseball, journalists Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt do for lesbians in this landmark book. Long misperceived as a separatist coven, a default option, or a sort of ladies' auxiliary to the gay men's movement, lesbian life has achieved a new visibility in the past few years. But for all the interest in who's out and who's not (yet), there's been surprisingly little understanding of the diversity and richness of lesbian experience. This funny, lively, and perceptive book will change all that. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with women around the country, and on their own keen wits and eyes, Van Gelder and Brandt have composed an unprecedented portrait of how gay women today -- "born" and "made," lipsticked and flannel-shirted alike -- think, feel, love, and live. Three major "tribal" events -- the long-running Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, "Dinah" (the annual Dinah Shore Golf Tournament and party circuit, a mecca for upwardly mobile luppies), and a cross-country trek with the activist Lesbian Avengers en route to the 1994 Stonewall commemoration -- provide points of entry into an exploration of lesbian identity, social dynamics, and politics that's as entertaining as it is revealing. The result is a kaleidoscopic portrait that will resonate with lesbians themselves and reveal to their "neighbors" a world of unsuspected vibrancy and depth.

Ance

Fascinating and a great read.

Nicearad

As the carefully selected cover might infer this book gives much homage to lesbians of the lipstick variety (a worthy subject no doubt). However, on their trip to the "heart of lesbian america" physical beauty is singled out as the most important way to these women's hearts. Initially they do a good round-up of lesbian culture and hotspots. But they fluctuate between humor that touches all of us at one time or another and humor that is at the expense of lesbians that didn't make the Miss America cut. One woman's appearance is compared with a gorilla. On another occasion they go on a bender about "hefty bag ladies." On top of this the interviews are carefully worded so that we can be constantly reminded that none of the interviewees hate men (as if that should be such a focal point in a book about culture by and for women). Just to figure out where these ladies were coming from I picked up an issue of Allure (van gelder is an editor for the mag). Well the only thing I could find that she wrote was a nice little piece about how to make eyeshadow work with your complexion. Low blow? Maybe but these women hit below the belt everytime. If you want an interesting and smart look at lesbian culture and history take a look at Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman.

Ubrise

This is a clever, informative book that attempts to explore the lesbian experience in the US without taking itself too seriously. The authors' breezy, almost conversational tone makes this a fun and educational read. Far from being elitist, the authors have attempted (and succeeded, IMO) to portray to vast diversity within our culture, from the Birkenstock-clad Michigan womyn to the lipstick crowd at Dinah, and everything in between. They sometimes poke gentle fun at some of the absurdities of lesbian society, without being critical or judgmental. I highly recommend this book for anyone, gay or straight, who wants to learn something about lesbian life and culture.