Wild mares : my lesbian back-to-the-land life /
Hunter, Dianna, 1949-
Wild mares : my lesbian back-to-the-land life / Dianna Hunter. - xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238).
Prologue -- The Great Man and the Dead Cow -- MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD World -- They Can't Kill Us All (Can They?) -- A Room of My Own -- Getting There -- The First Lesbian Conference -- Country Lesbian Manifesto -- The Trouble with Land -- Suzanne Takes You Down -- Family of Woman -- Women, Horses, and Other Embodied Spirits -- Lurk-in-the-Ditch -- Another Dance and a Funeral -- At the Speed of Hooves -- Rising Moon -- Making Hay -- Mel's Place (Dick Pulls Us Through) -- Del Lago -- Thundering Ice, Talking Spirits -- Ravenna's Refuge -- Dancing Leads to This -- Divorce and Dispossession -- Going, Going, Gone.
"Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction in the shadow of a strategic air command base. Communists and antiwar hippies were the enemy, but lesbians were a threat, too: they were unhealthy, criminal, and downright insane. It took Dianna a while to figure out that she was one, a little longer to discover how she fit in with her new communities in the city and the countryside. This is her story--a frank account by turns comic and painful of a well-behaved Midwestern girl finding her way through polite denial and repression and running head-on into the eye-opening events of the 1960s and '70s before landing on a dairy farm. A bumpy route takes Dianna to the Twin Cities, then to rural Minnesota and Wisconsin as--by way of the antiwar movement, women's liberation, and a dose of lesbian feminism--she and her friends try to establish a rural utopia free of sexual oppression, violence, materialism, environmental degradation--and men. They dream big, love as they see fit, and make do until they don't. Dianna buys a dairy farm and, with it, a new set of problems thanks to the Reagan-era farm crisis. A firsthand account of the lesbian feminist movement at its inception, Wild Mares is a deeply personal, wryly wise, and always engaging view of identity politics lived and learned in real life and, literally, on the ground, flourishing in the fertile soil of a struggling dairy farm in the American heartland."--Publisher description.
9781517902667 1517902665
Univ of Minnesota Pr, C/O Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S Langley Ave, Chicago, IL, USA, 60628 SAN 202-5280
2017056765
Farm life--United States.
Women farmers--United States.
Lesbians--United States.
Wild mares : my lesbian back-to-the-land life / Dianna Hunter. - xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238).
Prologue -- The Great Man and the Dead Cow -- MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD World -- They Can't Kill Us All (Can They?) -- A Room of My Own -- Getting There -- The First Lesbian Conference -- Country Lesbian Manifesto -- The Trouble with Land -- Suzanne Takes You Down -- Family of Woman -- Women, Horses, and Other Embodied Spirits -- Lurk-in-the-Ditch -- Another Dance and a Funeral -- At the Speed of Hooves -- Rising Moon -- Making Hay -- Mel's Place (Dick Pulls Us Through) -- Del Lago -- Thundering Ice, Talking Spirits -- Ravenna's Refuge -- Dancing Leads to This -- Divorce and Dispossession -- Going, Going, Gone.
"Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction in the shadow of a strategic air command base. Communists and antiwar hippies were the enemy, but lesbians were a threat, too: they were unhealthy, criminal, and downright insane. It took Dianna a while to figure out that she was one, a little longer to discover how she fit in with her new communities in the city and the countryside. This is her story--a frank account by turns comic and painful of a well-behaved Midwestern girl finding her way through polite denial and repression and running head-on into the eye-opening events of the 1960s and '70s before landing on a dairy farm. A bumpy route takes Dianna to the Twin Cities, then to rural Minnesota and Wisconsin as--by way of the antiwar movement, women's liberation, and a dose of lesbian feminism--she and her friends try to establish a rural utopia free of sexual oppression, violence, materialism, environmental degradation--and men. They dream big, love as they see fit, and make do until they don't. Dianna buys a dairy farm and, with it, a new set of problems thanks to the Reagan-era farm crisis. A firsthand account of the lesbian feminist movement at its inception, Wild Mares is a deeply personal, wryly wise, and always engaging view of identity politics lived and learned in real life and, literally, on the ground, flourishing in the fertile soil of a struggling dairy farm in the American heartland."--Publisher description.
9781517902667 1517902665
Univ of Minnesota Pr, C/O Chicago Distribution Center 11030 S Langley Ave, Chicago, IL, USA, 60628 SAN 202-5280
2017056765
Farm life--United States.
Women farmers--United States.
Lesbians--United States.