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JUNE ARNOLD (1926-1982) is the author of three other novels. JANE MARCUS is distinguished professor of English at City College and the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY.
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"Sister Gin is a tour de force about lesbianism and alcoholism, fat and feminism, rape and race, falling in love with your lover's mother's girlfriend, and it has the very best description of hot flashes in literature." ―Jane Marcus, author of Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
"Sister Gin may well be the most provocative and invigorating novel to emerge from the women's liberation and lesbian feminist movements. With a dazzling command of language and characterization, June Arnold undermines our comfortable assumptions about age, sexuality, relationships, and politics. The Feminist Press deserves our gratitude for reissuing this long-lost classic and Jane Marcus our admiration for her insightful afterword." ―Bonnie Zimmerman, author of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia
"Sister Gin is a wildly imaginative and luminously tender novel about the risks involved in being honest women. June Arnold's angry, brassy, funny, and vulnerable lesbian love story is a gift to intelligent readers everywhere." ―Valerie Miner, author of All Good Women
"Sister Gin is a tour de force about lesbianism and alcoholism, fat and feminism, rape and race, falling in love with your lover's mother's girlfriend, and it has the very best description of hot flashes in literature." Jane Marcus, author of Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
"Sister Gin may well be the most provocative and invigorating novel to emerge from the women's liberation and lesbian feminist movements. With a dazzling command of language and characterization, June Arnold undermines our comfortable assumptions about age, sexuality, relationships, and politics. The Feminist Press deserves our gratitude for reissuing this long-lost classic and Jane Marcus our admiration for her insightful afterword." Bonnie Zimmerman, author of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia
"Sister Gin is a wildly imaginative and luminously tender novel about the risks involved in being honest women. June Arnold's angry, brassy, funny, and vulnerable lesbian love story is a gift to intelligent readers everywhere." Valerie Miner, author of All Good Women
"Sister Gin may well be the most provocative and invigorating novel to emerge from the women's liberation and lesbian feminist movements. With a dazzling command of language and characterization, June Arnold undermines our comfortable assumptions about age, sexuality, relationships, and politics. The Feminist Press deserves our gratitude for reissuing this long-lost classic and Jane Marcus our admiration for her insightful afterword." ―Bonnie Zimmerman, author of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia
"Sister Gin is a wildly imaginative and luminously tender novel about the risks involved in being honest women. June Arnold's angry, brassy, funny, and vulnerable lesbian love story is a gift to intelligent readers everywhere." ―Valerie Miner, author of All Good Women
"Sister Gin is a tour de force about lesbianism and alcoholism, fat and feminism, rape and race, falling in love with your lover's mother's girlfriend, and it has the very best description of hot flashes in literature." Jane Marcus, author of Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
"Sister Gin may well be the most provocative and invigorating novel to emerge from the women's liberation and lesbian feminist movements. With a dazzling command of language and characterization, June Arnold undermines our comfortable assumptions about age, sexuality, relationships, and politics. The Feminist Press deserves our gratitude for reissuing this long-lost classic and Jane Marcus our admiration for her insightful afterword." Bonnie Zimmerman, author of Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia
"Sister Gin is a wildly imaginative and luminously tender novel about the risks involved in being honest women. June Arnold's angry, brassy, funny, and vulnerable lesbian love story is a gift to intelligent readers everywhere." Valerie Miner, author of All Good Women
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- PublisherThe Women's Press
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0704338335
- ISBN 13 9780704338333
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages215
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Book Description Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Edition. First UK edition, published as a paperback original (PBO). The book was originally published in the USA, also as a PBO, by Daughters, Inc. in 1975 - the publishing company that was set up by June Arnold with her partner Parke Bowman. ***Near fine in colour illustrated card covers, just very slightly rubbed at the edges. The covers are clean and unmarked. No reading lean to the binding. No reading creases to the spine. Spine tight. Internally near fine, with no inscriptions. Pages clean - just slightly tanned paper stock. ***215 pages. 196mm x 134mm. ***'"Sister Gin" gives life back to old women, and old women give the hope of life to women not quite old enough yet to become themselves.' (Off Our Backs) - quote taken from the back cover. ***'June Arnold (October 27, 1926 - March 11, 1982) was an American novelist and publisher, known for her novel "Sister Gin" and the posthumous novel "Baby Houston". Arnold's writing, such as "Sister Gin", and the books she published through her press, Daughters, Incorporated, focused on telling the stories of lesbian lives and relationships. Arnold's first novel, "Applesauce", was published in 1966 by McGraw Hill. It explored how women?s personalities change after motherhood and marriage. In 1971, June Arnold founded Daughters, Incorporated with her partner Parke Bowman. Daughters, Inc. published several books, many focusing on gender and lesbian experiences, including Lois Gould's "X: A Fabulous Child's Story", Rita Mae Brown's "Rubyfruit Jungle", and Arnold's novels. Arnold's second novel, "The Cook and the Carpenter", was published in 1973. It was followed by "Sister Gin" in 1975, a novel about Su, a 46-year-old woman whose carefully constructed life seemingly falls apart at the onset of menopause. Su struggles to write a play, keep her life together, leave her partner of 20 years, Bettina, all while drinking copious amounts of "Sister Gin." In addition to founding Daughters, Inc. and publishing three novels during her life, Arnold helped organize the first Women in Print Conference. She also contributed to publications such as Sinister Wisdom, Village Voice and Sister Courage.' (Wiki) ***A first printing of the Women's Press first UK edition, in lovely condition - published as a paperback original. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 1970x
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