Contributions

  • Walton, Shirley. - Contributor

Publication

1978 - Friends Press, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

52,500 words, Guess

Page Count

210 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC305.42

Alternate Titles

  • Womenfriends

Description

From 1970 through 1972, at the height of the Women's Liberation Movement and the explosive beginning of what would be Lesbian Separatism, Shirley Walton and Esther Newton kept a joint journal, writing separately but in constant conversation with each other. Best friends since college, the two struggled, not always successfully, to keep their different sexual orientations and life choices within the frame of their friendship and feminist sisterhood. Self published, this book is now an intimate historical document of one of the most exciting periods in the twentieth century.

Description

The shared journal of "Rebecca Snow" and "Pauline Basket," who "embraced feminism in 1969, and in this context ... wanted to strengthen and renew [their] friendship" through the writing of this book. Cf. Introd., p. v.

Subjects

Places

People

Esther NewtonShirley Walton

Genres

  • Personal narratives

Other Editions

  • WomenfriendsFriends Press1978

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