
Skin
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Lambda Award and American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through twenty-three impassioned essays that explore her identity-from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York-and her sexuality.
In "Gun Crazy," Allison delves into what guns meant to the men and women around her when she was growing up. She gives insight into the importance of speaking professionally about sexuality in "Talking to Straight People," and articulates the danger women feel about revealing their personal desires, even within feminist communities, in "Public Silence, Private Terror." Allison is fearless in her discussion of many social and political taboos. Compelling and raw, Skin is an honest and intimate work-perfect for Dorothy Allison fans and new readers alike.
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- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- Context
- A Question of Class
- Never Expected to Live Forever
- Gun Crazy
- Shotgun Strategies
- What Do We See? What Do We Not See?
- Neighbors
- Not as a Stranger
- Sex Writing, the Importance and the Difficulty
- Puritans, Perverts, and Feminists
- Public Silence, Private Terror
- Her Body, Mine, and His
- The Theory and Practice of the Strap-on Dildo
- Conceptual Lesbianism
- Talking to Straight People
- Femme
- Sex Talk
- Believing in Literature
- A Personal History of Lesbian Porn
- Myths and Images
- Bertha Harris, a Memoir
- Survival Is the Least of My Desires
- Skin, Where She Touches Me
- Promises
- About the Author
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