The Lesbian Reader: An Amazon Quarterly Anthology, 1975

Amazon Quarterly

First Edition

[LGBTQ] The Lesbian Reader: An Amazon Quarterly Anthology. Edited by Gina Covina and Laurel Galana. Cover drawing and graphics by Sharon Behrends. Oakland: The Amazon Press, 1975. First Edition. Softcover illustrated cover illuminating two women standing beside one another, and a butterfly. Amazon Quarterly was the first national literary magazine with a lesbian perspective, begun back in 1972. The Lesbian Reader collects short stories, essays, and poetry from Amazon Quarterly's three-year life span. Featured within The Lesbian Reader are several short stories that reflect upon Lesbianism in the 1970's. Titles of the stories include: "Woman Becoming", "The Lesbian Love Ethic", and "I Dream in Female: The Metaphors of Evolution". In "The Lesbian Love Ethic", Donna Richards surfaces a crucial notion: "For the single Lesbian who has lived through a number of such affairs and has come to realize their dynamics, this general expectation of sex...constitutes a suffocating straight jacket to her maneuverability" (41). A complex amalgamation of Lesbian love, heartache, poetry, and prose in the 1970's, this Lesbian book is in very good condition.

Item #19424

Price: $220.00