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A former reporter for The Village Voice and left-wing lesbian feminist explores the uncanny parallels between Christian fundamentalist and sexual liberation groups, in a work that blends autobiography, journalism, and social criticism.
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When Donna Minkowitz, a contributing writer to the Village Voice, Ms., and Out (among others), got in drag as a 16-year-old boy (complete with baseball cap and fake mustache), she soon found herself surrounded by taut-bodied, sweaty men in tight-fitting T-shirts and well-worn Levi's embracing and holding hands. But she wasn't sneaking into a gay bar: this was a Promise Keepers convention, where "family men" were enslaving themselves before their master, Jesus, as they learned to ask forgiveness for their sins and demanded the return of their traditional patriarchal role from their families.
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In her brave new book, Ferocious Romance, Minkowitz investigates the Religious Right, and in so doing draws some unexpected parallels between that culture and the diametrically opposed worlds of the S/M community, ACT-UP, Queer Nation, and Sex Panic!; she also finds herself identifying with many of the people she meets. This is a poignant journey in which Minkowitz comes face-to-face with the very people she has protested against as an activist; the experience leads her to explore her relationships to organized religion, women, feminism, sex, friendship, romance, and rage. A thoughtful and unconventional memoir--at turns harrowing and enlightening--that hits straight at the reader's heart and mind. --Kera Bolonik
Donna Minkowitz is a writer whose work has appeared in Ms., New York magazine, New York Newsday, The Advocate, Out, and The Nation. As a reporter and columnist for The Village Voice from 1987 to 1995, she reported on gay and lesbian culture. She has won awards from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, Radcliffe, and GLAD. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherFree Press
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0684833220
- ISBN 13 9780684833224
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages192
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