| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) |
| Contents |
COVER; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Prologue; 1. The Great Man and the Dead Cow; 2. MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD World; 3. They Can't Kill Us All (Can They?); 4. A Room of My Own; 5. Getting There; 6. The First Lesbian Conference; 7. Country Lesbian Manifesto; 8. The Trouble with Land; 9. Suzanne Takes You Down; 10. Family of Woman; 11. Women, Horses, and Other Embodied Spirits; 12. Lurk-in-the-Ditch; 13. Another Dance and a Funeral; 14. At the Speed of Hooves; 15. Rising Moon; 16. Making Hay; 17. Mel's Place (Dick Pulls Us Through); 18. Del Lago |
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19. Thundering Ice, Talking Spirits20. Ravenna's Refuge; 21. Dancing Leads to This; 22. Divorce and Dispossession; 23. Going, Going, Gone; Acknowledgments; Resources; Illustration Credits; Author Biography |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 02, 2018) |
| Subject |
Farm life -- United States
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Women farmers -- United States
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Lesbians -- United States.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women.
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Farm life
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Lesbians
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Women farmers
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017058904 |
| ISBN |
9781452957012 |
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1452957010 |
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