Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 20:26:05 EDT From: "Ellen Greenblatt" NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS -- 1995 QUEER STUDIES LIST 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 phone: 1-800-996-NYUP (6987) or 212-998-2575 fax: 212-995-3833 GAY MEN'S LITERATURE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Mark Lilly Beginning with Wilde's and Byron's existentialist outlaw, the theme of social rebellion and the fight against conformity forms a common link among the literary works of the twentieth century. Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century presents us with a unified analysis of these, and other, shared themes in the works of James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, Jean Genet, Joe Orton, Andrew Holleran, David Leavitt, and Constantine Cavafy, and in the love poetry of the first world war. This is the most unified treatment of gay men's writing to date, written to appeal to the general reader, but based on scholarship so original that it is vital reading for anyone interested in gay studies and gender studies. MARK LILLY is Senior Lecturer at the University of Tunis and the editor of Lesbian and Gay Writing: An Anthology of Critical Texts. 256 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-5081-8 $14.95s paper ISBN: 0-8147-5071-0 $45.00s cloth CUSA FICTIONS OF MASCULINITY Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities Edited by Peter F. Murphy Women writing about women dominates contemporary work on sexuality. Men have been far more willing to discuss female sexuality than male sexuality, while the most radical and insightful analyses of male sexuality have come from women. When men consider the issue of female sexuality they often speak from assumptions of security about their own unexamined sexuality. This book maintains that men have to interrogate their own sexuality if there is to be a revision of phallocentric discourse; and, that this revision of masculinity must be done in dialogue with women. The essays included in this collection examine the deep structure of masculine codes. They ask the question "Who are the men in modern literature?" Examining the force of the dominant values of Western masculinity, they synthesize insights from feminism, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, and new historicism. These perspectives help explain how male sexuality has been structured by fictional representations. PETER F. MURPHY is the Assistant Dean and an Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at SUNY, Empire State College. 300 pages ISBN: 0-8147-5498-8 $18.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-5497-X $45.00s cloth HOMOSEXUAL Oppression and Liberation with an Introduction by Jeffrey Weeks and a new afterword by the author Dennis Altman Praise for the original edition: "A pleasure...a really sensitive, lucid account of his personal liberation...a penetrating analysis of the political premises and goals and philosophical background of the movement." --The New York Times Long out of print, Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation remains a seminal work in the gay liberation movement. Altman examines the different positions promoting gay liberation, and recognizes the healthy diversity in these divisions. Elaborating on the writers of the emergent movement--James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Herbert Marcuse, Kate Millett, and others- -Homosexual suggests that we can nurture a common, progressive movement out of our shared sexuality and experience of a heterosexist society. Today, in the age of AIDS, ACT UP, and Queer Nation, the possibility of such commonality is of critical importance. Jeffrey Weeks's new introduction places Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation in its historical context, while the author's new afterword examines its significance in light of today's lesbian and gay movement. DENNIS ALTMAN is the author of seven books including The Homosexualization of America, AIDS in the Mind of America, and the forthcoming The Comfort of Men. He teaches politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. 320 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-0624-X / $14.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-0623-1 / $45.00s cloth CUSA SODOMY AND THE PIRATE TRADITION English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean B. R. Burg Reissued with a new introduction by the author "Burg puts historians to shame by raising extremely interesting questions that no one before had asked." --Christopher Hill in New York Review of Books Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world- famous amusement park ride. In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all-male institutions such as prisons, for it existed not within a regimented structure of rule, regulations, and oppressive supervision, but instead operated in a society in which widespread toleration of homosexuality was the norm and conditions encouraged its practice. In his new introduction, Burg discusses the initial response to the book when it was published in 1983 and how our perspectives on all-male societies have since changed. B. R. BURG is Professor of History at Arizona State University, Tempe. 250 pages ISBN: 0-8147-1236-3 $14.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-1235-5 $37.50s cloth DRAG A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts Roger Baker Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of travestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, "People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens." Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films. Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self-proclaimed "Supermodel of the World"). Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium. Author of books on Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe, the late ROGER BAKER wrote on a wide range of cultural topics for an equally wide range of publications, from The Times to Gay News and Gay Times. 268 pages / 29 photographs ISBN: 0-8147-1254-1 $15.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-1253-3 $45.00s cloth CUSA QUEER WORDS, QUEER IMAGES Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality Edited by R. Jeffrey Ringer "An interesting, readable, wide-ranging collection . . . fascinating." --Choice The debate continues to rage over the nature of sexual orientation. Queer Words, Queer Images addresses this debate, but with a difference, arguing that homosexuality has become an issue precisely because of the way in which we discuss, debate, and communicate about the concept and experience of homosexuality. This book posits that it is fundamentally an issue of communication. The twenty chapters address such subjects as gay political language, homosexuality and AIDS on prime-time television, the politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction, the identification of female athleticism with lesbianism, the politics of identity in the works of Edmund White, and coming out strategies. This is must reading for students of communication practices and theory, and for everyone interested in human sexuality. R. JEFFREY RINGER is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. 400 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-7441-5 $17.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-7440-7 $50.00s cloth THE GAY, LESBIAN, AND BISEXUAL STUDENT'S GUIDE TO COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND GRADUATE SCHOOLS Jan-Mitchell Sherrill and Craig Hardesty "Discusses issues that will help gay, lesbian, and bisexual students choose a school." --National On-Campus Report "More than just another guidebook." --Chronicle of Higher Education "Useful supplement to the mainstream guides." --Library Journal Now for the first time, there is a college guide written specifically for the largest under recognized minority within our country's student population. The authors polled thousands of individuals and groups, centering their survey on the question, "Would you recommend your school to other lesbian, bisexual and gay people?" The result: profiles of life at 175 institutions nationwide, with specific information on the climate and special services for gay, lesbian and bisexual students and the prevalence of anti-gay violence and harassment. The founding Director of the National Campus Violence Prevention Center at Towson State University, JAN-MITCHELL SHERRILL is currently Assistant Dean of Students at The George Washington University. His work on campus violence, featured on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's A Closer Look, and National Public Radio, has been recognized nationally. CRAIG HARDESTY is the Director of Student Judicial Services, also at The George Washington University. 288 pages ISBN: 0-8147-7985-9 $14.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-7984-0 $45.00s cloth LOVER Bertha Harris The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "A wonder. . . . I was seduced by its tantalizing elusiveness, its audacity, its sheer brio . . . a spellbinding, verbal sleight of hand as satisfying as it is serpentine." --The Washington Post Book World "Bertha Harris has created a woman's world as relaxed and sisterly and funny as [Joan] Didion's is tense and controlled. [She] presents a utopian vision of a world where women are in charge of themselves, and where, it is nice to note, they are very good company indeed." --The New York Review of Books A landmark work of lesbian literature, Lover was first published in 1972 by the now-defunct feminist press, Daughters, to tremendous critical acclaim. Emerging out of the women's and gay liberation movement alongside the early work of such writers as Rita Mae Brown and Jill Johnston, the novel features fictional and historical characters who run the gamut from saint to poor white trash, and who are by turn vulnerable and strong. One of the finest examples of early post-Stonewall lesbian fiction, Lover is poised to entice a new generation of readers. In this new edition, Harris reintroduces her work, providing engaging background on the cultural and personal milieu in which it was produced and painting a scathing and witty picture of the book's original publisher. Revealing the real-life personalities behind some of the novel's characters, the introduction is an amusing retrospective sure to entertain those who remember the heady post- Stonewall days, and to enlighten younger readers. BERTHA HARRIS is also the author of Confessions of Cherubino and Catching Saradove. She lives in Tennyson, Massachusetts, and continues to write compelling, eccentric and faintly indecent fiction. 320 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-3505-3 $15.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-3504-5 $45.00s cloth CHANGING OUR MINDS Lesbian Feminism and Psychology Celia Kitzinger and Rachel Perkins The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "Any gay person in therapy who reads this book will be less likely to fall into psychology's traps and will be better prepared to fight the onslaught of therapeutic culture." --San Francisco Sentinel An incisive critique of contemporary feminist psychology and therapy, Changing our Minds argues not just that the current practice of psychology is flawed, but that the whole idea of psychology runs counter to many tenets of lesbian feminist politics. Recognizing that many lesbians do feel unhappy and experience a range of problems that detract from their well- being, Changing Our Minds makes positive, prescriptive suggestions for non-psychological ways of understanding and dealing with emotional distress. Written in a lively and engaging style, Changing our Minds is required reading for anyone who has ever been in therapy or is close to someone who has, and for lesbians, feminists, psychologists, psychotherapists, students of psychology and women's studies, and anyone with an interest in the development of lesbian feminist theory, ethics, and practice. CELIA KITZINGER is Lecturer in Psychology and Women's Studies at Loughborough University. Her previous books include The Social Construction of Lesbianism, winner of a Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology, and Heterosexuality (with Sue Wilkinson). RACHEL PERKINS works as a Consultant Clinical Psychologist for the National Health Service in London and is a consultant for the UK National Center for Mental Health Service Development. 288 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-4646-2 $15.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-4645-4 $45.00s cloth CUSA ELIZABETH BOWEN A Reputation in Writing Renee C. Hoogland The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "Lively and topical. Firmly anchored in contemporary theory, Hoogland's analyses are witty and original, stylishly written and convincing. She confirms what one always suspected about adolescence, agency and identity in Bowen's heroines, and places Elizabeth Bowen in a startling context which is bound to bring her a whole new generation of attentive readers." Jane Marcus, CUNY Graduate Center Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific output ten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial body of non-fiction Bowen is a noteworthy novelist. The radical quality of her work, however, renders her an exceptional one. This book presents a radical re-reading of a selection of Bowen's novels from a lesbian feminist perspective. Taking into account both cultural contexts and the author's non- fictional writings, the book's main focus is on configurations of gender and sexuality. Bowen's fiction constitutes an exploration of the unstable and destabilizing effects of sexuality in the interdependent processes of subjectivity and what she herself referred to as "so-called reality." RENEE C. HOOGLAND is Lecturer in Lesbian Studies/Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on feminist/lesbian theory, postmodernism, women's and lesbian literature, and Hollywood cinema. She is now working on a book about sexual ambivalences in British and American cultural texts of the early 1960s. 328 pages ISBN: 0-8147-3511-8 $17.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-3501-0 $50.00s cloth SOPHIA PARNOK The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho Diana Lewis Burgin The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love. . . . Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." --Anton Chekhov, writing to his publisher in 1895 Chekhov's barbed comment suggests the climate in which Sophia Parnok was writing, and is an added testament to to the strength and confidence with which she pursued both her personal and artistic life. Author of five volumes of poetry, and lover of Marina Tsvetaeva, Sophia Parnok was the only openly lesbian voice in Russian poetry during the Silver Age of Russian letters. Despite her unique contribution to modern Russian lyricism however, Parnok's life and work have essentially been forgotten. Diana Burgin's extensively researched life of Parnok is deliberately woven around the poet's own account, visible in her writings. The book is divided into seven chapters, which reflect seven natural divisions in Parnok's life. This lends Burgin's work a particular poetic resonance, owing to its structural affinity with one of Parnok's last and greatest poetic achievements, the cycle of love lyrics "Ursa Major." Dedicated to her last lover, Parnok refers to this cycle as a "seven-star" of verses, after the seven stars that make up the constellation. Parnok's poems, translated here for the first time in English, added to a wealth of biographical material, make this book a fascinating and lyrical account of an important Russian poet. Burgin's work is essential reading for students of Russian literature, lesbian history and women's studies. DIANA LEWIS BURGIN is Professor of Russian and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and an Associate of the Russian Research Centre, Harvard University. She is author of a biography in verse, numerous articles on Russian literature, and a translator of Russian prose and poetry. 336 pages ISBN: 0-8147-1221-5 $17.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-1190-1 $50.00s cloth BISEXUALITY AND THE CHALLENGE TO LESBIAN POLITICS Sex, Loyalty, and Revolution Paula C. Rust The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support lesbians in a patriarchal and heterosexist society, bisexual women are often perceived as a threat or as a political weakness. Bisexual women feel that they are regarded with suspicion and distrust, if not openly scorned. Drawing on her research with over 400 bisexual and lesbian women, surveying the treatment of bisexuality in the lesbian and gay press, and examining the recent growth of a self- consciously political bisexual movement, Paula Rust addresses a range of questions pertaining to the political and social relationships between lesbians and bisexual women. By tracing the roots of the controversy over bisexuality among lesbians back to the early lesbian feminist debates of the 1970s, Rust argues that those debates created the circumstances in which bisexuality became an inevitable challenge to lesbian politics. She also traces it forward, predicting the future of sexual politics. Paula C. Rust is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hamilton College. 340 pages ISBN: 0-8147-7445-8 $16.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-7444-X $45.00s cloth THE COOK AND THE CARPENTER A Novel by the Carpenter June Arnold with an introduction by Bonnie Zimmerman The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "A classic, and perhaps, even the beginning of a new literature." --off our backs Women's liberation sought to transform every sector of U.S. society-- its educational system, culture, language, politics, and, importantly, the delivery of social services. To enable this movement, women all over the country began to establish women's centers. In New York City, women from almost every local women's liberation group took over an abandoned building in lower Manhattan on New Year's Eve, 1970. They named the building The Fifth Street Women's Building and renovated it to feed, clothe, shelter, and educate women in need. The take-over was a huge success, attracting hundreds of activists and community members. Thirteen days later, the New York City Tactical Police stormed the building, expelled the women, and ended the action. The City then tore the building down and built a parking lot on the site. June Arnold was one of the original planners and an active participant in this episode. When she got out of jail, she went home and wrote this novel about what happened. The Cook and the Carpenter, which quickly gained fame for its use of a non- gendered language, remains one of the best representations of the time period that berthed modern feminism and paved the way for lesbian communities. The late June Arnold was the author of Sister Gin, Applesauce, and Baby Houston. With Parke Bowman, she founded the feminist press Daughters which published such authors as Rita Mae Brown, Blanche Boyd, and Bertha Harris. Bonnie Zimmerman is Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University and is the author of The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction, 1969-1989. 230 pages ISBN: 0-8147-0631-2 $14.95 paperback ISBN: 0-8147-0628-2 $35.00s cloth DIANA A Strange Autobiography Diana Frederics Introduction by Julie Abraham The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "This is the unusual and compelling story of Diana, a tantalizingly beautiful woman who sought love in the strange by- paths of Lesbos. Fearless and outspoken, it dares to reveal that hidden world where perfumed caresses and half-whispered endearments constitute the forbidden fruits in a Garden of Eden where men are never accepted." This is how Diana: A Strange Autobiography was described when it was published in paperback in 1952. The original 1939 hardcover edition carried with it a Publisher's Note: "This is the autobiography of a woman who tried to be normal." In the book, Diana is presented as the unexceptional daughter of an unexceptional plutocratic family. During adolescence, she finds herself drawn with mysterious intensity to a girl friend. The narrative follows Diana's progress through college; a trial marriage that proves she is incapable of heterosexuality; intellectual and sexual education in Europe; and a series of lesbian relationships culminating in a final tormented triangular struggle with two other women for the individual salvation to be found in a happy couple. In her introduction, Julie Abraham argues that Diana is not really an autobiography at all, but a deliberate synthesis of different archetypes of this confessional genre, echoing, as it does, more than a half-dozen novels. Hitting all the high and low points of the lesbian novel, the book, Abraham illustrates, offers a defense of lesbian relationships that was unprecedented in 1939 and radical for decades afterwards. JULIE L. ABRAHAM is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Emory University. 280 pages ISBN: 0-8147-2635-6 $15.95 paperback ISBN: 0-8147-2632-1 $35.00s cloth THE SEARCH FOR A WOMAN-CENTERED SPIRITUALITY Annette Van Dyke The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "[A] bridge-building book [that] illuminates the interconnections among feminist creators from multi-cultural and mainstream traditions; one that creates bonds of sisterhood. Annette Van Dyke makes us aware of the way in which feminist spirituality unites women, even when the material conditions of their lives foster divisions." --Gloria Feman Orenstein, Author of _The Reflowering of the Goddess_ Alongside the boom in feminist and lesbian scholarship and activism of the last twenty years, there has evolved a distinctive spiritual tradition focussed on and revolving around women. This spirituality finds its roots in a number of different traditions, including the Native American, African-American, and Euro-American traditions. Central to these disparate traditions is the focus on a goddess figure, the centrality of the female principle, and the mending of the separation between mind and body. Weaving the strands of women's spirituality from different cultures together, Annette Van Dyke here addresses the commonalities among these rich traditions. Examining the work and writings of such figures as Leslie Marmon Silko, Paula Gunn Allen, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, Starhawk, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Sonia Johnson, and Mary Daly, Van Dyke illustrates how these writers and activists outline a journey toward wholeness--a "curing ceremony"--that allows them to reclaim their spirituality from the deadening influence of patriarchal religions. Taken together, their work contributes to a vision of a world based on a female principle, one which exemplifies a lesbian- feminist ethic. ANNETTE VAN DYKE is Director of Women's Studies at Denison University. 227 pages ISBN: 0-8147-8770-3 $13.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-8769-X $40.00s cloth (SEM)EROTICS Theorizing Lesbian : Writing Elizabeth Meese The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "An important and welcome contribution to lesbian-feminist criticism. Because of its French critical orientation, its new readings of classic Anglo-American (lesbian) texts, and its concern with the political controversy over pornography, Meese's book merits the attention of those interested in lesbian writing, theorizing feminist (not exclusively) lesbian writing, regardless of the critical tradition they are working in, and the politics of pornography." --Ruth D. Johnston, Pace University What is at stake in the production of experimental texts by lesbian writers? What motivates these writers and characterizes their work? What is the nature of their appeal to other lesbian writers and readers? What, finally, are the continuities and discontinuities in the tradition of twentieth century lesbian experimental writers, from Virginia Woolf to Nicole Brossard? These are some of the questions that form the central concern of (SEM)EROTICS. Many works by lesbian writers, such as Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, made a considerable impact on their contemporary readership, but then faded, primarily because they lacked compatibility with the prevailing narratives of literary history developed in the twentieth century. The enduring value of these same works to other lesbian writers is, however, repeatedly affirmed. While much has been written on Woolf, Stein, and others, the fundamental "lesbian question," the one that engages their lesbian frame of vision, is rarely asked: when Virginia looked at Vita, what did she see? In this work, Elizabeth Meese asks these, and other, provocative questions. She examines the ways in which a given writer constructs what we take as the "experience" of the text, and how the "experiences" of characters diverge and converge with what we have understood to be the writer's own biography. Entering into previously forbidden territory, Meese illustrates, for the first time, the ways in which the relationship of the reader to the text and its author is often like that of a lover. ELIZABETH MEESE is Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Alabama. She is the author of two books, Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Literary Criticism and (Ex)Tensions: Re-Figuring Feminist Criticism, and has co-edited (with Alice Parker) two volumes of feminist critical scholarship, The Difference Within: Feminism and Critical Theory and Theorizing Feminist Writing. 304 pages ISBN: 0-8147-5470-8 $14.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-5469-4 $40.00s cloth PAINT IT TODAY H.D. Annotated and with an Introduction by Cassandra Laity The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series This novel, a never-before published roman a clef by the famous Imagist writer, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), that explores H.D.'s love for women, is a lyrical recreation of the love and loss of her friend and first love, Frances Gregg, and of her later meeting with Bryher (Winifred Ellerman) who was to become H.D.'s lifelong companion. Spanning the years from H.D.'s childhood in Pennsylvania to the birth of her daughter, Perdita, in 1919, this turbulent love story is set against the backdrop of World War I, H.D.'s involvement in early 20th- century London literary circles, her brief engagement to American poet Ezra Pound, and her shattered marriage to British novelist Richard Aldington. Paint it Today is H.D.'s most "lesbian" novel, a modern, homoerotic tale of passage which focuses almost entirely on the young heroine's search for the "sister love" which would empower her spiritually, sexually, and creatively. Cassandra Laity's introduction places H.D.'s love for the sexually magnetic, betraying Gregg and for the more nurturing and loyal Bryher in the context of the lesbian Romanticism of early modern fiction. Her annotations of all Greek references and literary quotations, as well as biographical "facts" represented in the text, provide nuance and detail to this engrossing work. CASSANDRA LAITY teaches at Drew University. The author of several articles on modernism and gender in the writings of W. B. Yeats and H.D., she is the author of the forthcoming book, H.D. and fin-de- siecle: Gender, Modernism, and Victorian/Romantic Aestheticism. 160 pages ISBN: 0-8147-3488-X $13.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-3487-1 $40.00s cloth ADVENTURES OF THE MIND The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney Translated by John Spaulding Gatton With an Introduction by Karla Jay The Lesbian Life and Literature Series "A cultural artifact of its time, by an enthusiastic and undaunted witness who knew everybody worth knowing and all the gossip." --Guy Davenport, University of Kentucky Every Friday, for half a century beginning in 1909, whenever she was in Paris, Natalie Clifford Barney hosted the most brilliant international salon of its day. Barney received in her home such literary, artistic, musical, and intellectual beacons of the twentieth century as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Colette, Isadora Duncan, Auguste Rodin, Romaine Brooks, William Carlos Williams, Paul Valery, Renee Vivien, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Truman Capote. In 1929, she shared her life, in and out of the salon, through the publication of the first of three volumes of reminiscences. This first-ever English translation of Adventures of the Mind chronicles her friendships and associations through reprinted correspondence and recreated conversations, and evokes the golden age of her salon in a gallery of literary portraits. The first half of the volume features a baker's dozen of the male writers she knew, from Oscar Wilde, whom she literally ran into at the age of five, to Pierre Louys, who encouraged her fledgling writing career, and Paul Valery, an "Immortal" in the Academie Francaise. Barney dedicates the latter half of her diary to the Academie des Femmes, which she founded in 1927, as a counterpart to the male bastion of the French Academy. At the salon, leading French women of letters were introduced to English and American counterparts, and their works were read and discussed. The book preserves the proceedings of these meetings, between such figures as Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, and Mina Loy, in the distinctive voices of their speakers. This annotated translation of this lively volume will be of interest to a wide variety of general readers, historians, students of lesbian and gay literature and women's studies, and literary scholars. Karla Jay's illuminating introduction places Barney's salon in both a historical and political framework. JOHN SPALDING GATTON is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Bellarmine College. 267 pages ISBN: 0-8147-1180-4 $13.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-1177-4 $40.00s cloth LADIES ALMANACK Djuna Barnes With an Introduction by Susan Sniader Lanser The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "Lesbianism, its glories and sorrows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously perverse Sentimental Journey by Nightwood's author . . . a striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody." --Library Journal Re-issued to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Djuna Barnes's birth, Ladies Almanack is a witty roman a clef about the openly lesbian and cosmopolitan community that flourished in Paris during the 1910s and 1920s. Written in mock Elizabethan English and filled with ribald humor, innuendo, and arcane puns, this unconventional "almanack" focuses especially on the imaginary exploits of the writer and salon mistress Natalie Clifford Barney, known as "the Amazon," and her social circle, which included Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall and Una Troubridge, Janet Flanner, Dolly Wilde, and the artist Thelma Wood, with whom Barnes was involved. Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and accompanied by the author's delightful illustrations, Ladies Almanack is also a brilliant modernist composition and arguably the most audacious lesbian text of its time. While the book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were Barnes' literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters, which was also its first audience. Since that time, the growing fame of Ladies Almanack has corresponded roughly to its decreasing availability. This edition reproduces the original work, with an introduction by feminist scholar Susan Sniader Lanser that explores its place both in literary history and in Barnes' life and work. SUSAN SNIADER LANSER is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Affiliate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland, and the author of Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice. 128 pages / 23 illustrations ISBN: 0-8147-1180-4 $12.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-1179-0 $40.00s cloth I KNOW MY OWN HEART The Diaries of Anne Lister, 1791-1840 Edited by Helena Whitbread The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "The souvenir of an unabashed and often triumphant erotic life, rediscovered after nearly two hundred years, the story of [Anne Lister's] desire--and of the comic, gallant ways in which she satisfied it--seems especially poignant....What Lister's diary suggests is that . . . the passion women find together has always existed, and we have only now begun to uncover its remarkable, lyrical history." --The Women's Review of Books These remarkable diaries, a veritable Rosetta Stone of lesbian life in the early nineteenth century, tell the story of the life and loves of Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional upper-class Englishwoman, who, from adolescence onward, was involved in a succession of passionate affairs with other women. Most of these relationships were with members of her own class and social circle, but at least one involved a liaison with a servant woman. Composed in a secret cipher--a "kiss" is Lister's codeword for orgasm, as in "Two kisses last night, one almost immediately after the other, before we went to sleep"--and ably decoded by Helena Whitbread, who spent six years editing them, the diaries trace not only Lister's relationships, but her attempts at self- definition and her strikingly confident and guilt-free outlook. Lister's account of her daily life and her sometimes snobbish, but always compelling and unflinching commentary about the failings and shortcomings of her friends and acquaintances only add to the book's readability. HELENA WHITBREAD lives in Halifax, England. 370 pages ISBN: 0-8147-9249-9/$15.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-9248-0/$45.00s cloth CUSA NO PRIEST BUT LOVE The Journals of Anne Lister, 1824-1826 Edited by Helena Whitbread The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series Upon publication, the first volume of Anne Lister's diaries, I KNOW MY OWN HEART, met with celebration, delight, and some skepticism. How could a upper class Englishwoman, in the first half of the nineteenth century, fulfill her emotional and sexual needs when her sexual orientation was toward other women? How did an aristocratic lesbian manage to balance sexual fulfillment with social acceptability? Helena Whitbread, the editor of these diaries, here allows us an inside look at the long-running love affair between Anne Lister and Marianna Lawton, an affair complicated by Anne's infatuation with Maria Barlow. Anne travels to Paris where she discovers a new love interest that conflicts with her developing social aspirations. For the first time, she begins to question the nature of her identity and the various roles female lovers may play in the life of a gentrywoman. Though unequipped with a lesbian vocabulary which which to describe her erotic life, her emotional conflicts are contemporary enough to speak to us all. This book will satisfy the curiosity of the many who became acquainted with Lister through I KNOW MY OWN HEART and are eager to learn more about her revealing life and what it suggests about the history of sexuality. HELENA WHITBREAD lives in Halifax, England. 270 pages / 37 illustrations / 1 map ISBN: 0-8147-5077-X $14.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-5076-1 $45.00s cloth CUSA LAVENDER CULTURE Edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young With a new introduction by Cindy Patton and a new preface by the editors "To read this book is to glimpse gay culture in its first morning. . . . It offers a comprehensive and poignant overview of a very special moment in gay culture. Read it, and if you're still too macho to weep, or too insufficiently radical/feminist to scream, at least shed a tear for lost innocence." --The Advocate This reissue of the classic anthology, LAVENDER CULTURE, serves as a provocative, dynamic, and wide-ranging reminder of American gay and lesbian culture in the days before the status of gay people received widespread attention in the media, religion, and politics. Here we find the young, assertive voices of such activists, authors, and artists as Rita Mae Brown, Barbara Grier, John Stoltenberg, Julia Penelope, Andrea Dworkin, Andrew Kopkind, Jane Rule, Arthur Bell, Charlotte Bunche, and dozens more. Including essays on such diverse subjects as gay bath houses, the gay male image in classical ballet, images of gays in rock music, Judy Garland, lesbian humor, sports and machismo, the growing business of women's music, and the Cleveland bar scene in the 1940s, Lavender Culture, with new introductory essays by the editors and Cindy Patton, offers a panoply of gay and lesbian life, tracing the current influence and visibility of gay and lesbian culture back to its origins. KARLA JAY is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Pace University, co- editor of LESBIAN TEXTS AND CONTEXTS, and series editor of "The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature." ALLEN YOUNG is author of GAYS UNDER THE CUBAN REVOLUTION. Working together in the 1970s, Jay and Young edited three gay liberation anthologies, including OUT OF THE CLOSETS: VOICES OF GAY LIBERATION, and co- authored THE GAY REPORT. 540 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-4217-3 $18.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-4216-5 $55.00s cloth OUT OF THE CLOSETS Voices of Gay Liberation Twentieth Anniversary Edition With a new Foreword by the editors and a new Introduction by John D'Emilio Edited by Karla Jay and Allen Young "It is wonderful to have _Out of the Closets_ again available. A pioneering anthology that had a profound impact in its first incarnation in 1972, it still speaks powerfully to the condition of gay men and lesbians in American life, recounting sorrows and joys, offering solace and strategy, celebrating the remarkable diversity and creativity of those who are "different." --Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York This new edition of OUT OF THE CLOSETS, first published in 1972, celebrates the twentieth anniversary of this underground bestseller. In the wake of the Stonewall uprising, often considered the birth of the modern gay rights movement, the book gave a voice, for the first time, to many gay and lesbian Americans suppressed and closeted for two centuries. Filled with joyous self-affirmation, angry manifestos, and searching personal reflections, the work provides an incisive look at the individuals and ideologies of this important social movement. OUT OF THE CLOSETS is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of sexuality and the legal and social status of lesbians and gays in contemporary America. KARLA JAY is Professor of English at Pace University, the author of The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renee Vivien, and the editor of NYU Press's series, THE CUTTING EDGE: LESBIAN LIFE AND LITERATURE. ALLEN YOUNG, who has taught courses at Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts, is the author of Gays Under the Cuban Revolution. With Karla Jay, he has co-authored The Gay Report and co- edited Lavender Culture. 410 pages ISBN: 0-8147-4183-5 $13.95 paperback ISBN: 0-8147-4182-7 $45.00s cloth LESBIAN EROTICS Edited by Karla Jay The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series "Karla Jay is one of the authentic pioneers of lesbian studies. Here she brings together 16 essays on the once-taboo, now gloriously `speakable' subject of lesbian sexuality. Illuminating, often funny, full of thought and emotion and a continuous, speculative intellectual energy, the essays tell a fascinating collective story about lesbian desires, past and present, and the controversial places of female homosexuality in modern society." --Terry Castle Author of _The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture_ The question of whether lesbians have sex, how they have sex, and when they began having sex has long obsessively preoccupied the heterosexual imagination. Today, discussions of lesbian sex abound with such terms as "romantic friendships, "stealth lesbians," and "genitally sexual." As we approach the end of the twentieth century, lesbian sexuality remains hotly contested ground. What exactly qualifies as lesbian sex? What is the relationship, if any, between lesbian erotica and heterosexual pornography? How did the issue of sex in lesbian communities come to be such a fiercely debated subject? LESBIAN EROTICS is the first anthology to investigate the cultural production of sexually charged images of lesbians in film, law, literature, and popular culture in general. The contributors address an enormous range of sexualities and fora in which these sexualities flourish. This work, as Karla Jay writes in the introduction, "invites readers to consider the implications, variations, and complexities of lesbian erotics. In the end, it is our sexual lives that mark us as outlaws. Therefore, we need to investigate and engage representations of our sexuality to define for ourselves, if we so choose, the scope, shape, and permutations of lesbian erotics." Karla Jay is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Pace University. She has co-edited many anthologies, including Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions (with Joanne Glasgow) and Lavender Culture and Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation (both with Allen Young). 320 pages / 6 illustrations ISBN: 0-8147-4225-4 $17.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-4221-1 $50.00s cloth THE POEMS OF APHRA BEHN A Selection Edited by Janet Todd NYU Press's Women's Classics Series Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theater. Behn led an unusually active and eventful life for a woman of her era, traveling widely--to Surinam in 1663 and to Antwerp in 1666, where Charles II sent her as a spy during the Anglo- Dutch war. Returning to England she spent some time in a debtor's prison and subsequently devoted herself to writing, publishing numerous poems and almost twenty plays between 1670 and 1689. Because of the overtly political nature of her work, much of Behn's writing appeared anonymously and in many different versions. The Poetry of Aphra Behn is the first accessible reprinting of Aphra Behn's verses since the seventeenth century. Encompassing the entirety of her oeuvre, from satirical writings to songs, love poems, and verse epistles, the book is a testament to the life and mind of a remarkable woman. JANET TODD is Professor of English Literature at the University of East Anglia and the author and editor of numerous works in the field of women's literature. 288 pages ISBN: 0-8147-8216-7 / $50.00s cloth CUSA FEMINIST NIGHTMARES: WOMEN AT ODDS Feminism and the Problem of Sisterhood Edited by Susan Weisser and Jennifer Fleischner "This [book] reminds us that sisterhood is what we have to work towards not something we can assume as given on the basis of some alleged commonality of biology." --Linda Nicholson, Professor, State University of New York at Albany and editor of the series "Thinking Gender" As feminism grows increasingly diverse, the time has come to ask a painful and frequently avoided question: what does it mean for women to oppress women? This pathbreaking, provocative anthology addresses this troublesome dilemma from various feminist perspectives. A myriad of texts, from women's antislavery writing to women's anti- abortion writing, from the Bible to the popular romance, from Jane Austen to Alice Walker, inform this interdisciplinary collection. The value of the volume is perhaps best summed up by an early response to the idea--"This is a book that should never be written; feminists should concentrate on how men oppress women." Ironically, it is precisely because the subject triggers such responses that a volume such as FEMINIST NIGHTMARES has become a necessity. SUSAN WEISSER is Associate Professor of English at Adelphi University and author of the forthcoming CRAVING VACANCY: WOMEN AND SEXUAL LOVE IN THE BRITISH NOVEL. JENNIFER FLEISCHNER is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany and the author of DAUGHTERS OF SLAVERY: TRAUMA, WRITING, AND IDENTITY IN WOMEN'S SLAVE NARRATIVES (forthcoming from NYU Press). 384 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-2620-8 / $18.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-2619-4 / $55.00s cloth LOVING TO SURVIVE Sexual Terror, Men's Violence, and Women's Lives Dee L. R. Graham with Edna I. Rawlings and Robert Rigsby Feminist Crosscurrents Series "Sure to spark controversy." --Feminist Bookstore News "The most important book on the psychology of women in this century." --June Peters, author of The Phoenix Program Have you wondered: Why women are more sympathetic than men toward O. J. Simpson? Why women were no more supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment than men? Why women are no more likely than men to support a female political candidate? Why women are no more likely than men to embrace feminism--a movement by, about, and for women? Why some women stay with men who abuse them? Loving to Survive addresses just these issues and poses a surprising answer. Likening women's situation to that of hostages, Dee L. R. Graham and her co-authors argue that women bond with men and adopt men's perspective in an effort to escape the threat of men's violence against them. Dee Graham's announcement, in 1991, of her research on male- female bonding was immediately followed by a national firestorm of media interest. Her startling and provocative conclusion was covered in dozens of national newspapers and heatedly debated. In LOVING TO SURVIVE, Graham provides us with a complete account of her remarkable insights into relationships between men and women. This is a book that will forever change the way we look at male- female relationships and women's lives. DEE L. R. GRAHAM is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. EDNA I. RAWLINGS is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cincinnati. ROBERTA K. RIGSBY, a Ph.D. in English, is pursuing a second Ph.D. in psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 304 pages ISBN: 0-8147-3059-0 $17.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-3058-2 $35.00s cloth SEXUAL ARTIFICE--Genders #19 Persons, Images, Politics Edited by Ann Kibbey, Kayann Short, and Abouali Farmanfarmaian Is there something more to the social construction of gender than what the social sciences have described? SEXUAL ARTIFICE argues that there is indeed much more. On the contested state of international politics, public imagery, and nationalist cinema, the artifice of sexuality wields an enormous power to influence the interpretation of our social selves and the world in which we live. These essays collectively explore the art of constructing gender in symbolic media images; in poetry, photography, and montage; in dramatic identity politics; and, last but not least, in contemporary feminism itself. With original essays on Virginia Woolf's ORLANDO; Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the culture of romance; Valerie Solanis (of S.C.U.M. and Andy Warhol fame); male hysteria and the U.S. invasion of Panama; and representations of women in Northern Ireland, SEXUAL ARTIFICE offers some of the most thought- provoking and daring young scholarship in contemporary cultural and gender studies. ANN KIBBEY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder and founding editor of GENDERS. She teaches cultural studies and is the author of THE INTERPRETATION OF MATERIAL SHAPES IN PURITANISM: A STUDY OF RHETORIC, PREJUDICE, AND VIOLENCE. KAYANN SHORT is an Associate Editor on the forthcoming OXFORD COMPANION TO WOMEN WRITERS in the U.S. and also teaches women's studies courses at the University of Colorado. ABOUALI FARMANFARMAIAN, an Iranian free-lance journalist based in Montreal, has published essays in London, New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, and Cairo. 312 pages / 6 x 9 / 21 illustrations ISBN: 0-8147-4651-9 $17.95s paper ISBN: 0-8147-4650-0 $50.00s cloth EROTICISM AND CONTAINMENT--Genders #20 Notes From the Flood Plain Edited by Carol Siegel and Ann Kibbey "Impressive, an appealing new venue for feminist criticism. Women's Studies, English, history, among other humanities scholars will welcome the appearance of GENDERS as a semi-annual volume. EROTICISM AND CONTAINMENT advances the current debate about sexuality and cultural studies by bringing together some of the most sophisticated work on these topics to date. From Henry James and Willa Cather to Donahue and Gus Van Sant, these essays engage crucial and controversial ways of interpreting and theorizing a wonderfully diverse subject in national and international contexts." --Dale M. Bauer, Director of the Women's Studies Research Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Sexual confessions on television talk shows. Gender and medical discourse in colonial India. River Phoenix in "My Own Private Idaho." White women in a German colony. Henry James' thwarted love. What do these seemingly diverse subjects have in common? All address, in different ways, social and cultural attempts to contain eroticism by delineating the perimeters of gender. They scrutinize the political investments in the construction of gender in such disparate locations as contemporary Hollywood, Renaissance England, and colonial India and Africa. But whether the gendering of the subject follows the dictates of conservative politics or the radical agenda of a marginalized interest, the essays reveal an erotic overflow--the "flood"--that cannot be contained within any one gendered identity. In examining how the erotic escapes containment, these essays disclose problems inherent in the intersections of gender and desire. CAROL SIEGEL is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver and author of LAWRENCE AMONG THE WOMEN: WAVERING BOUNDARIES IN WOMEN'S LITERARY TRADITIONS and MALE MASOCHISM: MODERN REVISIONS OF THE STORY OF LOVE (forthcoming). ANN KIBBEY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder and founding editor of GENDERS. She teaches cultural studies and is the author of THE INTERPRETATION OF MATERIAL SHAPES IN PURITANISM: A STUDY OF RHETORIC, PREJUDICE, AND VIOLENCE. December / 340 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-7999-9 / $17.50s paper ISBN: 0-8147-7998-0 / $50.00s cloth FORMING AND REFORMING IDENTITY--Genders #21 Edited by Carol Siegel and Ann Kibbey Forming and Reforming Identity exposes the historical sites of identity formation and seeks to define the mechanisms of modern- day gender ideologies. Illuminating the power of the family and state in shaping gender identities, the book also examines the constitution of these identities. Each chapter reveals the complexities and contradictions that inevitably accompany the formation of any new category of identity, whether they are deliberately restrictive or intended as a reformation of the old. The volume moves, as gender construction does, across a field of different media: novels, plays, teleplays, films, official documents, political theory, and advertisements. Four sections--REMOLDING WOMAN; REBELLING MAN; HOMEMADE IDENTITIES; and FEMINISMS THAT MAKE (A) DIFFERENCE--address such subjects as the representation of American women in the 1950s; nationalism and respectable sexuality in India; women, Hollywood cinema, and World War II; compulsory heterophobia; and the televising of AIDS. Carol Siegel is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver. Ann Kibbey is Editor in Chief of Genders and Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado, Boulder. Together, they are the editors of Eroticism and Containment: Notes from the Flood Plain (Genders 20), also published by New York University Press. 368 pages / 11 b&w photographs ISBN: 0-8147-8007-5 / $17.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-8006-7 / $55.00s cloth POSTCOMMUNISM AND THE BODY POLITICS--Genders #22 Edited by Ellen E. Berry The epidemic of mass rape in the former Yugoslavia has illustrated once again, and in particularly brutal fashion, the inextricable relationship between national politics, sexual politics, and body politics. The nexus of these three forces is highly charged in any culture, at any time in history, but especially so among cultures in which rapid, even cataclysmic, changes in material realities and national self-conceptions are eroding or overwhelming previously secure boundaries. This groundbreaking volume turns its attention to the Second World, specifically to such subjects as the birth of the sex media and porn industry in Russia; Russian women and alcoholism; cinema in post-communist Hungary; patriotism and gender in Poland; sexual dissidence in Eastern Europe; and women in the former Yugoslavia. ELLEN E. BERRY directs the Women's Studies Program at Bowling Green State University. She is author of Curved Thought and Textual Wandering: Gertrude Stein's Postmodernism and co-editor with Anesa Miller-Pogacar of Re-Entering the Sign: Articulating New Russian Culture. 380 pages ISBN: 0-8147-1248-7 $17.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-1247-9 $55.00s cloth GENDER AND JUDAISM The Transformation of Tradition Edited by T. M. Rudavsky Is halakhah (Jewish law) gender inclusive? How do conceptualizations of the Jewish home effect Jewish women's identities? What is the relation between the experiences of historical Jewish women and the roles of their present day sisters? How have changing gender roles affected the identity of the Jewish male? In this groundbreaking anthology, twenty scholars seek to address these and other questions. Among the many subjects covered are: gender boundaries in Kabbalah; images of Jewish masculinity; the challenge of women's rabbinic leadership; Jewish feminist theory; rabbinic responses to wife-beating; Orthodox women in the modern world; and patriarchy, Judaism, and Nazism in German feminist thought. T. M. RUDAVSKY is Yassenoff Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at The Ohio State University. 320 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-7453-9 $18.95 paper ISBN: 0-8147-7452-0 $45.00s cloth EXTREMISM IN AMERICA A Reader Edited by Lyman Tower Sargent "Essential reading for anyone interested in the dark side of American politics." --Michael Barkun Author of Religion and the Racist Right Extremism takes many forms: racial, political, religious, economic. Despite the diversity of extremist thought, this collection of extremist ideologies and writings highlights the one thread that unites the various brands of extremism, whether leftist or rightist, historical or contemporary. The unifying motif is that there is always an enemy. The enemy can take the form of the government, communism, the patriarchy, African- Americans, gays and lesbians, men, welfare recipients, Jews, or corporations, but the presence of a clearcut ideological foe is always an intrinsic component of extremism. Providing a panoramic perspective on American extremism from the earliest days of the republic, the book is divided into thematic chapters, communism and anti-communism; race; social concerns, such as the family, education, and gender relations; economic matters, such as taxes and welfare; intentional communities, such as The Covenant The Sword and The Arm of the Lord; and organizations or individuals advocating radical decentralization, such as the Left Green Network or the Students for a Democratic Society. Familiar extremist forces--the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, Phyllis Schlafly--here meet lesser-known forces to paint a vivid and powerful portrait of life and thought on the political fringe. Lyman Tower Sargent is Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the author of Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis, New Left Thought and Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Reader. 380 pages ISBN: 0-8147-8011-3 $17.95s paper ISBN: 0-8147-7978-6 $55.00s cloth SPEAKING OF RACE, SPEAKING OF SEX Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Anthony P. Griffin, Donald E. Lively, Robert C. Post, William B. Rubenstein, Nadine Strossen Preface by Ira Glasser At the University of Pennsylvania, a student is reprimanded for calling a group of African-American students "water buffalo." Several prominent American law schools now request that professors abstain from discussing the legal aspects of rape for fear of offending students. As debates over multiculturalism and "political correctness" crisscross the land, no single issue has been more of a flashpoint in the ongoing culture wars than hate speech codes, which seek to restrict bigoted or offensive speech and punish those who engage in it. In this provocative anthology, a range of prominent voices argue that hate speech restrictions are not only dangerous, but counterproductive. Acknowledging the legitimacy of the concerns that prompt speech codes and combining support for civil liberties with an acute concern for civil rights issues, SPEAKING OF RACE, SPEAKING OF SEX demonstrates that it is difficult, if not impossible, to draw the line between unprotected insults and protected ideas. Decrying such speech regulation as overly concerned with the symbols of racism rather than its realities, SPEAKING OF RACE, SPEAKING OF SEX offers a balanced and well-reasoned perspective on one of the most controversial issues of our time. HENRY LOUIS GATES is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard University. A practicing attorney in Galveston, Texas and recipient of the first Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Award presented by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, ANTHONY P. GRIFFIN was General Counsel for the NAACP and was removed in 1993 for his representation in a first amendment case of a Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. DONALD E. LIVELY is a Professor of Law at the University of Toledo. ROBERT C. POST is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. WILLIAM B. RUBENSTEIN is the Director of the Gay and Lesbian Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. NADINE STROSSEN is a Professor of Law at New York Law School and the President of the American Civil Liberties Union. IRA GLASSER is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. 320 pages / 6 x 9 ISBN: 0-8147-3070-1 $26.95 cloth New York University Press Please address all orders or queries to: New York University Press 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 phone: 1-800-996-NYUP (6987) or 212-998-2575 fax: 212-995-3833 NYU Press accepts VISA and MASTERCARD. All prices listed above are subject to change.