The Lesbian Community: With an Afterword, 1980

by Deborah Goleman Wolf

Academic, Scholarly, Research

Genres: Lesbian, LGBT, Nonfiction, History, Feminism

212 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1979

Reviews

[fausto]

An excellent analysis of the San Francisco's lesbian-feminist community in the 70's. While Goleman herself is a straight woman, her analysis is well documented, honoring the lesbian existence and the potencial of lesbianism as a political force :)

[Rosie]

Informative. Written with a rather clinical approach - author is quite detached and doesn't offer her own opinions on what she sees, but it can be surmized that her view is positive, from the introduction and from her position as a (admittedly straight) feminist. The book is also heartwarming, but it lacks a certain spark, since there's no underlying objective/point to be made, and it is only an analysis/description of the community.