The Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women's Community - Softcover

Krieger, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877223149 ISBN 13: 9780877223146

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1983

Synopsis

Explains about a lesbian community. This book addresses several basic questions about privacy that led the author to explore dilemmas of identity. It is organized around particular kinds of situations and relationships in the community where conflicts concerning control over identity are especially prominent.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A unique book about a lesbian community—an experiment, both in women's language and in social science method

From the Inside Flap:

"An absorbing account of a woman's community...Krieger's brilliant concluding essay on her method [is] the most exciting insight I've come across..."
—Kate Millett

"...Extraordinary: sensitive, vivid, and courageous. The study of a lesbian community, it explores the relationship of self to group, of private identity to public worlds."
—Catharine R. Stimpson, Institute for research on Women, Rutgers University

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0877223149
• ISBN 13: 9780877223146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224