Tag: Great

Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s

Holt Anne | Dead Joker | ‘Chief Public Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud’s wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family living room. The cause of death: she has been

Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love | Sappho Was a Right-On Woman | A radical change in a little-understood part of society has made this book possible. It is a change that is forcing people to reevaluate their attitud

Zahra Patterson | Chronology | Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, CHRONOLOGY explores the spaces language occ

Paula Martinac | Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage | Rich with anecdotes, inspiration, and brass-tacks problem solving, The Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage chronicles the emotional and politica

Tyburczy Jennifer | Sex Museums | All museums are sex museums. In Sex Museums, Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality–particularly how categories of

Susan Wittig Albert | Loving Eleanor | When AP political reporter Lorena Hickok–Hick–is assigned to cover Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1932 campaign, the two women become deeply involved. The

Doris Faber | The Life of Lorena Hickok: E. R.’s Friend | With this bombshell, paradoxically, the unthinkable becomes a matter for thoughtful contemplation. Lorena Hickok was a heavy-set, heavy-voiced AP repo

Charles Vert Willie; Richard Reddick | A New Look At Black Families | A New Look at Black Families provides a provocative and precocious analysis of the diversity of the black family experience in which black families of

E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women. | Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,