Yet another book -- this is not a literary weblog, can't you tell from my grammar? -- available
A Collection of Essays about the experience of lesbians in the field of teaching. This book includes for the most part discussion of coming out to the school comminity and issues of how lesbians should represent themelves.
It's from 1988, so I'm going to pretend this stat from Anna Stein's contribution
60% of those surveyed in a recent Gallup Poll objected less to gay soldiers, salespeople, priests, and doctors than to gay educators.
is no longer accurate.
And that the percentage is lower now, thank you very much.
Found the book (where else?) at Brown Elephant, which, yes, is nowhere near Shampoo-Banana, but I decided that little road trip really wasn't going to help me decide whether to move back down there for the next several years or not.
It's a slim volume, 58 pages or so. Anyone out there want it after I'm done?
Not that this material would be of interest to anyone who reads this site, or anyone I know. . .
Trade you for "Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe." ;P
nope. no interest whatsoever. now, if you have anything based on the experience of closeted black women, i'd be game.
VA, that's actually tempting.
This worries me slightly.
luva, did you want something for closeted black lesbians, or black women passing for white? Don't think I have something on gay black women passing for straight white women, but I don't always remember all the books I pick up. . .
Is there really a book about same-sex unions in pre-modern Europe? Author please?
Yes, it's "Same-sex unions in Premodern Europe" by John Boswell. You might also want to check out Mary Becker, FAMILY LAW IN THE SECULAR STATE AND RESTRICTIONS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE, 2001 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1 (2001), an article that uses the history of marriage -- how we got to one man, one woman -- to argue why same-sex marriage should be allowed.
Thanks for the info. I'll look into the book and the article. Any other recommendations for stuff on marriage history would be welcome too. It seems like the more I learn about the history of marriage the more ridiculous it seems that anyone would want to prevent same-sex couples from doing it if they want to.
Just wanted to say I found a full-text version of the Mary Becker article through my University library web site and boy was it good--lots of detail and some different arguments for gay marriage rights than you normally hear.