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Small Town Revolution describes the coming out process of a politically naive Air Force wife who moved to Vermont with her husband and two daughters in 1974. After exposure to the radical lesbian feminist Burlington Women's Community, there was no going back to the safety of her bucolic, heterosexual lifestyle. This memoir focuses on the author's conscious choice to switch sexual identities. By sharing her story, Crow reminds us that thousands of women made a political, spiritual and psychological decision to slip out from under the thumb of a male-dominated society and join forces with the revolutionary women's movement which reached its pinnacle in the mid-1970s. Here Crow recounts the exhilarating and wrenching experience of changing cultures -- we see the events of that era from the inside, through the lens of one woman's personal and interpersonal encounter with lesbian feminism. Additionally, based on thirty taped interviews of lesbians from the BWC which were collected in the late 90s, Small Town Revolution exposes the passions and foibles of a tightly-knit group of visionary women who supported, nurtured and occasionally turned on each other in their fervent desire to change the world.
Published: Jul 09, 2010
|Est. Pages: 240
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