Download or read book Her Neighbor s Wife written by Lauren Jae Gutterman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.
Download or read book The Lesbian s Wife written by Sidi and published by Harlem Book Center. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you were trying to return to the United States after vacationing in a foreign country and you were delayed in the airport? When it becomes apparent that momentary delay is in reality your abduction, how would you feel? Who would you
Download or read book Secret Needs written by Little Munson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask a man his favorite fantasy, and he'll tell you he craves to see his wife/girlfriend spend playtime with other women. Funny thing is, many women don't tell their men they need the same thing. And in that gap of truth not shared, a tantalizing desire lingers. Meet Derek. A silly man who finds himself steeping in this very stew. He's finally experiencing the "arrangement" he's craved for years... the love triangle he swore he couldn't live without.Problem is, in the blink of an eye, he's been pushed to a very cold curb, because real-life, lesbian cuckolding, is not for the faint of heart, or weak of mind. Insecurity and humiliation are powerful forces. So is realizing his wife is under the spell of a very beautiful creature. There's not a thing Derek can do about it, either, as he witnesses firsthand a skilled cuckquean wielding power over his wife, while twisting Derek's mind and heart into all sorts of tortured little knots simultaneously. What a "terrible" dilemma. Question is... can Derek "man up" and accept his new status, or is manning up an impossible thing for him to do? Yes, Secret Needs is very much based on a true story. Follow Derek on his adventures. Discover what happens when a man when bites off more than he can chew, and how he finds himself enduring the "agonizing" ritual of fearing he's losing his wife to another woman... every... single...day.
Download or read book The Reformed Pastor written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eat My Wife written by Rachel Jordan and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I would love to go down on your wife."I am convinced. My husband, is nuts. How else could you explain him fixing his lips to encourage me to have sex with a woman, who is also a stranger... ON OUR ANNIVERSARY? What kind of woman does he think I am? I've never been interested in being with a woman and I never will be... I don't care how much he begs me. I don't care how much SHE begs me...Still, there's something about this breathtakingly gorgeous, mysterious woman that is intriguing. As much as I want to tell her to go to hell and reject her... As much as I want to deny my husband his so-called ultimate fantasy... Something about her keeps pulling me to her. Her promises of a night of toe-curling, mind-blowing, ecstacy perhaps?Damn.Should I throw caution to the wind and say yes? Just this one time?
Download or read book Her Neighbor s Wife written by Lauren Jae Gutterman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few blocks away from her. To Barbara, Pearl was "the most gorgeous woman in the world," and the two began an affair that lasted over a decade. Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States. In doing so, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws our attention away from the postwar landscape of urban gay bars and into the homes of married women, who tended to engage in affairs with wives and mothers they met in the context of their daily lives: through work, at church, or in their neighborhoods. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices. By revealing the extent to which marriage has historically permitted space for wives' relationships with other women, Her Neighbor's Wife calls into question the presumed straightness of traditional American marriage.
Download or read book The Wives of Bath written by Susan Swan and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swan’s international bestselling novel The Wives of Bath, is both a shocking Gothic tale about a murder in a girls’ boarding school and an adolescent confession. Mouse and Paulie, reluctant fourteen-year-old boarders at Bath Ladies College, are confronted by the slippery quest for one small, vital thing: the thing that definitively makes boys different from girls. The novel was made into the feature film Lost and Delirious, shown in 34 countries. Since the film’s debut, young women all over the world have role-played the parts of Mouse, Tory and Paulie on the Lost and Delirious website.
Download or read book Someone I Love Is Gay written by Anita Worthen and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1996-05-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding out that a child, spouse, relative or friend is homosexual can be an unwelcome surprise. You're hit with a complex combination of emotions - grief, shame, fear, guilt. You are flooded with questions ranging from why to what's next. You wonder what a biblical response would be. At the same time, someone you care about deeply may be awaiting your response. What should you say? Someone I Love Is Gay was created out of Anita Worthen's struggle over these issues with her son and her work with New Hope Ministries in San Rafael, California, and Bob Davies's personal experience and professional experience with Exodus International in Seattle, Washington. Drawing also on the experiences of others, they will help you to handle your feelings while responding appropriately to your loved one.
Download or read book The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader written by Henry Abelove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1993 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest and most comprehensive multi-disciplinary anthology of critical work in lesbian/gay studies brings together 42 groundbreaking essays which extensively illustrate the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of sexuality, sexual politics, and gender studies.
Download or read book My Lesbian Husband written by Barrie Jean Borich and published by . This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the author's life and love she shares with her long-term partner, Linnea.
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Wives Roles Representations Identities Work written by Hallstein Lynn O'Brien and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume opens an innovative space for critical discussion, and production of new imaginaries within, feminist scholarship, analysis and feminist politics, about what is and has been meant by, involved in, required of, and what it means to be, a “wife.” Contributions within this volume together critically explore and tease out, intersections, overlaps, and distinctions between the social categories of wife and mother, and the link, and separate, labours of wife-work and maternal caregiving labour. This volume brings together diverse critical perspectives through creative contributions, personal narratives, and scholarly works. Chapters discuss critical theorizing about roles, representations, identities, and work associated with being a “wife.”
Download or read book The Dark Wife written by Sarah Diemer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three thousand years ago, a god told a lie. Now, only a goddess can tell the truth. Persephone has everything a daughter of Zeus could want--except for freedom. She lives on the green earth with her mother, Demeter, growing up beneath the ever-watchful eyes of the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus. But when Persephone meets the enigmatic Hades, she experiences something new: choice. Zeus calls Hades "lord" of the dead as a joke. In truth, Hades is the goddess of the underworld, and no friend of Zeus. She offers Persephone sanctuary in her land of the dead, so the young goddess may escape her Olympian destiny. But Persephone finds more than freedom in the underworld. She finds love, and herself.
Download or read book Masculinity in Lesbian Pulp Fiction written by Paul Thompson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2. It challenges established critical assumptions about the readership, and sets the masculinity imagined in these novels against the “masculinity crisis” of the era in which they were written. The key issue of these novels is couplehood as much as sexuality, and the instability of masculinity leads to the instability of the couple. Thompson coins the term “heteroemulative” to describe the struggle that both heterosexual and homosexual couples have in conforming to heteronormativity. As several of these novels have been republished and remain in print, they have taken on a new relevance to issues of sexuality and gender in the twentyfirst century, and this study will attract readers within that area of interest. A valuable read for sociologists studying gender roles, and social historians of the cold war period in the United States. It is suitable for readers of all academic levels, from undergraduate, through postgraduate, to scholars and researchers, but also for a general readership.
Download or read book The Gay Lesbian Atlas written by Gary J. Gates and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the words "we are everywhere" can be frequently heard at gay and lesbian political events, The Gay and Lesbian Atlas provides the first empirical confirmation of this rallying cry. Drawing on the most recent data from the U.S. Census, this groundbreaking work offers a detailed geographic and demographic portrait of gay and lesbian families in all 50 states plus the top 25 U.S. metropolitan areas. These results, presented in more than 250 full-color maps and charts, will both confirm and challenge anecdotal information about the spatial distribution and demographic characteristics of this community. It is probably no surprise that San Francisco, Key West, and western Massachusetts all host large gay and lesbian populations, but it might surprise some that Houston, Texas, contains one of the ten "gayest" neighborhoods in the country, or that Alaska and New Mexico have high concentrations of gay and lesbian couples in their senior populations. The Atlas is a unique and important resource for the political and public policy communities, public health officials, social scientists, and anyone interested in gay and lesbian issues
Download or read book The Other Side of the Closet written by Amity Buxton and published by Trade Paper Press. This book was released on 1994-06-07 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask for ask desk.
Download or read book The Aviator s Wife written by Melanie Benjamin and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars.”—USA Today NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER When Anne Morrow, a shy college senior with hidden literary aspirations, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family, she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Enthralled by Charles’s assurance and fame, Anne is certain the aviator has scarcely noticed her. But she is wrong. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. In the years that follow, Anne becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States. But despite this and other major achievements, she is viewed merely as the aviator’s wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life’s infinite possibilities for change and happiness. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Aviator’s Wife “Remarkable . . . The Aviator’s Wife succeeds [in] putting the reader inside Anne Lindbergh’s life with her famous husband.”—The Denver Post “Anne Morrow Lindbergh narrates the story of the Lindberghs’ troubled marriage in all its triumph and tragedy.”—USA Today “[This novel] will fascinate history buffs and surprise those who know of her only as ‘the aviator’s wife.’ ”—People “It’s hard to quit reading this intimate historical fiction.”—The Dallas Morning News “Fictional biography at its finest.”—Booklist (starred review) “Utterly unforgettable.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An intimate examination of the life and emotional mettle of Anne Morrow.”—The Washington Post “A story of both triumph and pain that will take your breath away.”—Kate Alcott, author of The Dressmaker
Download or read book Full Moon Gender Swap written by Paula Spicer and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curt's having the worst luck: his date just stood him up, he just sat in someone's cheesy nachos at the movie theatre, and a crazy naked woman BIT him in the alley outside. It's true what they say, weird things do happen at the full moon.Little does Curt know that the woman who bit him in the alley has infected him. His full moon nights are about to get a lot weirder, because from now on, he'll become a sex-hungry woman when the moon is fully exposed.His female self's appetites are insatiable when the full moon is in the sky. He can only refer to himself as a werewoman. He enlists Kathy, his oldest friend and the only person who will believe him, to help him deal with the werewoman. Together, they manage to find a bright spot in all the madness.Author's note: This is a standalone romance story with a HAE ending! Two bonus gender swap romance stories have been included as a thank you to my readers!Warning: This 15,000-word novella contains graphic language and steamy descriptions of gender transformation and sex.
