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Carol Anne Douglas is a writer of fantasy novels and plays. She passionately loves the Arthurian legends and the works of Shakespeare, and is using them as the basis of her own fiction. Her book Lancelot Her Story will be published this fall, and its sequel will be published in 2016.

She worked on a feminist news journal for many years and published many essays. She has taught women's studies classes at George Washington University. She is now focusing on her novels and plays. One of her short plays was read at the Kennedy Center, and several have been read at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Md. ...more

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	Lancelot: Her Story 3.77 avg rating — 43 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas (Goodreads Author), Joan E. Biren (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lancelot and Guinevere 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Merlin's Shakespeare (Merlin's Shakespeare #1) 2.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mercutio Problem 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To the Cleveland Station 1.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1982	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives by Susan Hawthorne (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Susan Hawthorne (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Anne Douglas (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Like many other people, I think Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is the finest new book of 2020. Wilkerson demonstrates that caste is best term to understand the complex race and class stratification in the United States. She has been to India and studied caste in that society. She also compares caste in the United States to Nazi Germany and shows that the Nazis used the U.S. South’s Jim Crow codes as a m Read more of this blog post »

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The book's title stands for president No. 46. No, not Joe Biden. In this novel, lesbian Emma McMasters (a Democrat, of course) wins the presidency. Her wife had died three years earlier, so Emma moves into the White House alone. The details about elec ...more
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The Prophets is the finest novel I've read in months. It's also perhaps the most painful novel I've read about slavery. The writing is often gorgeous, luminous. This is the story of two gay men who are enslaved in a plantation in Mississippi. They lov ...more
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“Love and Politics should be on the reading list of all activists and academics seeking to understand how feminist theory gives perspective and power to strategy and action. Charlotte Bunch, author of Passionate Politics: Feminist Theory in Action”
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