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Reading this book is like going to a far place and finding yourself at home.
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Morris' work invites further use of contemporary feminist theory as an interpretive tool. I appreciate the respect with which she treated this complicated community, and the respect her work inspires.
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It's something of a hodge-podge, but little has been written about this phenomenon, making the book a welcome additional to gay and lesbian collections.
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...provides both historical documentation and a counterargument to prevailing understandings of LGBT experience—all in an engaging, easy-to-read style aimed at undergraduates.
(via ProQuest) - ↑ Catanese, Elizabeth (March–April 2017). "Whither Women's Spaces?" . The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide . Vol. 24 no. 2. pp. 40–41.
Morris weaves an artful quilt of scholarly research, primary source material, and personal anecdotes in an effort to preserve the history of quickly vanishing, uniquely lesbian-identified spaces.
- ↑ "The Feminist Revolution". Kirkus Reviews . November 13, 2017.
Essential for students of women’s rights and popular political movements in the modern era and an inspiration for future actions.
- ↑ "Girl Reel". Publishers Weekly . January 3, 2000.
Although the writing swings awkwardly into a preachy and self-congratulatory tone in the latter half of the book, the story of Morris's early girlhood and the glimmerings of her intellectual coming-of-age are most plainly evocative....
- ↑ Hartman, Melissa (July–August 2000). "Girl Reel". Lambda Book Report . Vol. 8–9 no. 12. pp. 23–24. ProQuest 236963184.
Yet this injection of emotionalism in the last few selections ... weakens the overall effect ... Perhaps they seem undermining only because the rest of the book is so intellectually powerful
(via ProQuest) - ↑ "Bonnie Morris & Hilary Zaid: Winners of 2014 BLOOM Chapbook Prizes". BLOOM Literary Journal. March 24, 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
...displays an often sophisticated, wry wit, an awareness of the larger world beyond a child’s/young person’s [sometimes] solipsistic universe, and handles with quiet deftness and confidence issues of ethnic, racial, cultural, religious, and gender difference (and sometimes class difference as well), without ever becoming didactic.
- ↑ "Soundwaves of Feminism: The Women's Music Movement". Library of Congress . 2017. Retrieved 16 October 2019. [Video]
