Coming out of cancer : writings from the lesbian cancer epidemic /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brownworth, Victoria A. (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : Seal Press, [2000]
Subjects:	Cancer in women. Lesbians > Diseases. Lesbians > Health and hygiene. Cancer patients' writings, American. Neoplasms. Homosexuality, Female.

Table of Contents:

Thanks for the mammaries / Alison Bechdel
Introduction: a hidden cell / Victoria A. Brownworth
A burst of light : living with cancer / Audre Lord
Apology to Audre Lord, never sent / Sandra Steingraber
The politics of cancer / Jackie Winnow
Closure / Teya Schaffer
The new year / Teya Schaffer
In our own hands : a brief history of the lesbian cancer movement / Lynn Kanter
not//a story / Ruthann Robson
Bone scan / Sandra Steingraber
Departure / Sandra Steingraber
"A private little hell" : selected letters of Rachel Carson / Ellen Leopold
As luck would have it / Roberta L. Hacker
Vibrator party / Tee A. Corinne
Fitting lesbians into breast cancer activism : an interview with Dr. Susan Love / Paige Parvin
Self-examination / Mona Oikawa
Handling your tumor with knowledge and humor / Julie van Order
Who killed the shark? / Victoria A. Brownworth
A tribute to Pat Parker / Barbara Smith
Massage / Pat Parker
It's not so bad / Pat Parker
A scar I did not want to hide / Jerilyn Goodman
Vigil / Madelaine Gold
Blood money / Sandra Butler and Barbara Rosenblum
A woman dead in her forties / Adrienne Rich
Know your body, save your life : an interview with Kelly Marbury / Joanne Dahme
Murder at the Nightwood Bar / Katherine V. Forrest
That ribbon around my heart / Ogla R. Alvarado-Cofresi
and the floods came / Victoria A. Brownworth
Health insurance : getting coverage for the treatment you need / Paula Berg
Against elegies / Marilyn Hacker
Living with cancer / Joan Nestle
Rose and Vivian : a love story / Lisa D. Williamson.