New Lesbian Writing

by Margaret Cruikshank (Editor)

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Genres: Lesbian, Anthologies, Queer, LGBT

200 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1984

About the author

Margaret Cruikshank is an American lesbian feminist and academic. Cruikshank began teaching in 1968 and was one of the first American academics to be out during a time when gay rights was just a fledgling idea. Her research and educational work focuses on awareness and acceptance of lesbian academia and the exclusion of lesbian literature and criticism from traditional literature studies and women's studies. Her work has been published in Gay Community News , Radical Teacher , the Journal of Homosexuality and The Advocate .

Cruikshank lives in a small fishing village on the eastern coast of Maine. After teaching English, gay/lesbian studies and women’s studies for many years, she retired from the University of Maine in 2011. She continues as a faculty associate at The Maine Center on Aging. In 1997 she donated a selection of her archives to the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives in West Hollywood. She is a recipient of two Fulbright senior specialist awards, one for the University of Victoria's Centre on Aging (2007) and a forthcoming one at the University of Graz in Austria.

Reviews

[emma rose · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing collection of diversity within the lesbian community. I really learn a lot about lesbian history on an individual level from a wide range of ladies. Poems about sexual love, short stories about the struggles of being a black, feminist, lesbian writer in the 50's, literary reflections on the importance of working class lesbian poetry, stories featuring the racism faced by asian, indigenous and black Americans, depictions of healthy and unhealthy relationships alike, of loving parents and ones that reject their daughters for whom they love, finding support in your community, non-binary representation from the 1910's. INCREDIBLE. I greatly enjoyed this book and will recommend it to everyone.