false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173383222m/280637.jpg 280637 1 Sex radical Amber L. Hollibaugh may be best known for the classic "What We're Rollin' Around in Bed With," the edited transcript of a taped 1979 conversation on butch/femme desire between Hollibaugh and Cherrie Moraga. This influential article, steeped in the lesbian feminist lingo of the 1970s, still reads almost as a confession, in which socially and economically disadvantaged women--both ardent feminists and one of them an ex-hooker--nervously admit to each other the polarity of their sexual needs. This article showcases the great strengths of Hollibaugh's work: courage and insistence on the truth. The most moving essay in <I>My Dangerous Desires</I>, which covers work of the past two decades, is a memoir and meditation on aging called "Femme Fables" (a collection of three shorter pieces from Hollibaugh's column in the <I>New York Native</I> in the early 1980s), in which she recalls returning to her working-class home after a year away at an upper-class boarding school. She had brought back a suitcase of books, to which her parents responded with awe and respect. One day she came home to find her mother sitting on her bed, crying, surrounded by these open books, unable to understand them. Years later, Hollibaugh admits: "This is a pain I cannot avoid each time I sit at my typewriter or assemble my office. The ghost of her narrowed options and all the dreams she had to defer to me, the confusions and bitter separation between us, are shapes which hang in my house now and live with me. In order to give me a chance, my parents had to create a child they did not understand; they had to endure my shame of them. The pride we carry about each other is surrounded by a sadness none of us can dissolve." While some of the political debates that inspired these pieces are happily out of date, this remains a rich and evocative collection, offering bulletins from the battlefields of the feminist sex wars. <I>--Regina Marler</I> 272231 1 10 2000 My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Series Q) total:93|5:43|4:32|3:13|2:4|1:1| 93 391 185 15 5 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 03 22:45:31 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 17:00:42 -0800 2008
amber hollibaugh's voice is really important to me. she speaks with complexity, honesty, passion, compassion. she brings a class and race analysis to feminism and queer movements. she shares and asserts and explores her 'dangerous' desires - making her work s...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Aug 14 22:12:02 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 22:12:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 18:43:30 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 19:11:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 22 20:02:53 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 22:19:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Thu Aug 21 19:44:02 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 13:17:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Fri Jul 10 04:17:58 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 04:20:08 -0700 2009
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