Walking on the Moon by Barbara Wilson (2)

'A middle-aged woman leaves her husband in Italy and joins an all-women's circus; a twelve-year-old girl meets Miss Venezuela at the 1959 Miss Universe beauty pageant; two friends maneuver uneasily around shared memories during a brief reunion one hot spring in Arizona. And in the title novella, Barbara Wilson explores a woman's coming to terms with her past and present: revisiting Germany after twelve years, Elizabeth Michaels sifts through memories of adolescent anxieties and social repression, painfully unraveling the meaning of loving women' [from the back cover]. Six stories and a novella from the prodigious fiction and non-fiction author, translator, and editor, Barbara Wilson (now Sjoholm), a founder in 1976 with Rachel da Silva of the feminist Seal Press, dedicated to publishing books by and about women and co-founder as well of Women in Translation, also dedicated to publishing women's fiction from around the world.. Two of the 6 stories initially appeared in other publications.

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Full contents:
Il circo delle donne
Take Louise Nevelson
How to fix a roof
Hearings
The hulk
Miss Venezuela
Walking on the moon (p. 108-161)