The Lesbian Path

by Margaret Cruikshank (Editor)

For this new edition of her landmark collection of lesbian lives, Margaret Cruikshank has added an interview with May Sarton and texts by Beth Brant, Elsa Gidlow, Judy Grahn and Jane Rule. Praise for the first "The Lesbian Path to self-affirmation is a journey of adventure, excitement, and passion. These stories provide entertainment, escape, reassurance, and a well-marked trail of shared experiences. A most positive, enjoyable anthology of true stories from lesbians' lives." â€"Maida Tilchen, Gay Community News "I wouldn't have believed this book if I hadn't read it myself, and I've lived it." â€"Carol Seajay, editor, Feminist Bookstore Newsletter "This is a much-needed collection of lesbians speaking in the first person. I could not put this book down." â€"Barbara Hammer, Godess Films "The Lesbian Path, sensitively edited by Margaret Cruikshank, is an important contribution to the literature. . . . I recommend it highly" â€"Deborah Wolf, author of The Lesbian Community

Genres: Lesbian, LGBT, Queer, Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

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

[Kiera McCurdy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gifted to me by my wonderful friend Paige in college but I just now got around to reading it for pride month! Simultaneously heartbreaking and so filled with hope and beautiful connections between all kinds of lesbians from all over the country. Made me cry a lot. Thank god I wasn’t born 50 years ago

[Lena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Certains textes m'ont grave touchée, d'autres un peu moins, mais je suis contente d'avoir lu ce bouquin.

[Marks House]

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