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Images of the Disabled, Disabling Images
by Alan Gartner Tom JoeIn this collection of a dozen essays, writers with strong backgrounds in the disability rights movement examine the roots of public attitudes toward the disabled. Several essays consider portrayals of people with disabilities in literature, film, and journalism. Others explore social policy toward the disabled in education, employment, and health-care. Nat Hentoff's powerful piece, ""The Awful Privacy of Baby Doe," expresses the author's outrage over the case of a child born with spina bifida who was denied treatment because doctors persuaded her parents that she would be better off dead.
Out Of The Closet Into Our Hearts: Celebrating Our Gay/Lesbian Family Members
by Laura Siegel Nancy Lamkin Olson
The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits From Crime
by Joel Dyera scathing indictment of the prisons for profit system in the U.S., which imprisons a greater % of its citizens than Russia or China
Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
by Gerda LernerAutobiography of pioneering women's historian focusing on her youth in Austria, escape from the Nazis involvement in radical politics and emigration to the U.S.
The Girls: Sappho Goes To Hollywood
by Diana MclellanMcLellan's investigative account of the lives of Hollywood's most glamorous and uninhibited goddesses plunges deep into the rich stew of love, money, and passion that was the dawn of the movie business. The Girls reveals an early marriage to a communist spy that Marlene Dietrich fought all her life to keep secret and unearths an equally shrouded fling between Dietrich and Greta Garbo as starlets in Berlin. From the complex love life of the elegant Mercedes de Acosta through Isadora Duncan and Tallulah Bankhead to Garbo's lover Salka Viertel, McLellan untangles a passionate skein of connections that stretches from the theater in New York through brazenly bisexual socialites deep into the heart of the film industry.
Drive-By Journalism: The Assault on Your Need to Know
by Arthur RowseA sobering look at the effect of mega-corporate media dominance; puts the lie to the myth of liberal bias in the mass media.
On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency
by Mark HertsgaardExamines relationship and coverage of press during Reagan presidency.
A Lesbian Love Advisor
by Celeste WestWitty, yet also serious content, for lesbians and relationships. Some wonderful ideas and examples for various types of rituals.
Lesbian Couples
by D. Merilee Clunis G. Dorsey GreenWritten by two well-known lesbian psychologists, this book is a guide to developing and maintaining lesbian relationships. No matter how short or long your current relationship has been, a review of this book is always helpful.
The Lesbian Parenting Book: A Guide to Creating Families and Raising Children
by G. Dorsey Green D. Merilee ClunisMany topics covered, both in the areas of child raising, and raising children in non-traditional families. Wonderful support and education in this book. Written by psychologists who are the authors of "Lesbian Couples." (Also available on Bookshare.)
Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last
by Betty BerzonPsychologist offers counseling from her practice with long-term gay and lesbian couples. Topics, such as compatibility, internalized homophobia, communication, power and control issues, jealousy, fair fighting, money, sex, family, writing wills, etc, are all covered.
Through Yup'ik Eyes: An Adopted Son Explores the Landscape of Family
by Colin ChisholmThe author, adopted as an infant by a Caucasian father and half-Eskimo mother, makes a series of trips to Alaska after his adoptive mother's death. There he connects with her Eskimo relatives, from whom she was separated at the age of six. Chisholm reconstructs the history of his adoptive mother's family in a series of fictional sketches based on stories he was told by the surviving members. This reconstruction gives him a new perspective on his mother's life and his own.
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
by James RumfordA biography of the French scholar whose decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphic language made the study of ancient Egypt possible.
Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo
by Kenn HarperIn 1897 the arctic explorer Robert Peary brought six Eskimos from northern Greenland to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. For a brief time the Eskimos became a living exhibit. When four of the group died their skeletons were put on display. Six-year-old Minik, who managed to survive, was adopted by an American family and lost much of his Eskimo identity. Yet at 18 he chose to return to Greenland, where he struggled to rebuild his life among his own people. Meticulously researched and compellingly written, this is the poignant story of a young man who lived in two worlds and never fully belonged to either one. It is also the story of the scientific and economic exploitation of the indigenous people of the Arctic.
Twice Blessed: On Being Lesbian or Gay and Jewish
by Christie Balka Andy RoseEssays and stories by Jewish gay men a nd lesbians. Includes liturgical writings. Also includes glossary and resources, bibliography.
Rites of Passage
by Joanne GreenbergThis is a collection of twelve short stories with varying themes and settings. In the title story, a teenage boy raised by elderly aunts strives to become a man, with disastrous consequences. In "Upon the Waters" an old farmer creates chaos in a social service agency when he attempts to repay society for the help he received during the Great Depression.<P><P> Man Booker Prize winner
Without Reservation: How a Controversial Indian Tribe Rose to Power and Built the World's Largest Casino
by Jeff BenedictAll about the founding of Foxwood Casino and the Indian tribe responsible. Very interesting.
Staying Power: Long Term Lesbian Couples
by Susan E. JohnsonThis is the report of the first nation-wide study on long-term lesbian relationships. It includes interviews with couples, analyses, and what can be learned from these women.
Living Your Dying
by Stanley KelemanThis book explores the little dyings of our lives and their relationship to the overall dying process.
Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
by Robert Corstad Raymond Gavins William H. ChafeInterviews with Southern Blacks about their experiences with Jim Crow laws.
Dog Days And Dandelions
by Martha BarnetteThe author does not recommend that this book be read all at once. But, I could not help myself. If there is an ox in the history of our English "A," (and there is) then how could I wait to find out where the other animals might be influencing my own use of words?
Legal Lynching: Racism, Injustice, and the Death Penalty
by Jesse JacksonA legal and ethical analysis of the death penalty.
War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians and the struggle for a Promised Land
by Anton La GuardiaThe Story of a long-lived historical rivalry.
Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation
by Shirley Idelson Sue Levi Elwell Rebecca T. AlpertStories of eighteen lesbian rabbis.
Dare to Repair: A Do-It-Herself Guide to Fixing (Almost) Anything In The Home
by Julie Sussman Stephanie Glakas-TenetA repair guide written especially for women.