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Sally Miller Gearhart (1931 - )
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Shook My Heart by Irene Zahava (Editor)
The 25 stories in Love
Shook My Heart are love stories in the broadest sense, from
unclouded girl-meets-girl romances to fantasies in faraway
kingdoms--even a wintry story based on the Grimms' fairy tale
"Frau Trude." Some of these pieces will seem familiar to
readers. The coming-out narrative, for instance--that exclusively
gay genre--is well represented, including the requisite lesbian
back rub. And there are lots of ex-lovers in the book--another
fixture on the lesbian landscape--some running away, others
returning, full of endearments.
Less romantic, but equally resonant for queer
readers, is Judith Stein's "Members of the Wedding," a
painful portrayal of culture shock in which two "fat Jewish
dykes" travel from Boston to attend a straight wedding in
Nashville, Tennessee, a city that seems to them like "some
kind of alternate-reality amusement park." The best piece in
the collection may be Antonia Matthew's inventive "If This
Were...," in which two women seduce each other by imagining
what they would be doing and saying if they were characters in a
romance. Not all the stories here meet the literary level of
"If This Were...," but most are interesting and
thoughtfully written, quietly documenting passion in its many
changing forms. --Regina Marler
Contributors: Harlyn G. Aizley, Cathy Cockrell,
Martha Clark Cummings, Yvonne Fisher, Carolyn Gage, Sally Miller
Gearhart, Elissa Goldberg, Tzivia Gover, Carol Guess, Anndee
Hochman, Judy MacLean, Antonia Matthew, Julie Mitchell, Merril
Mushroom, Anne Seale, Deborah Schwartz, Judith Stein, Roey Thorpe,
Uncumber, Jess Wells, Julia Willis, Barbara Wilson.
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Feminist Tarot by
Sally Gearhart, Susan Rennie
Sally Gearhart and Susan Rennie reveal how the
traditional Tarot deck, with all its richness and mystery, can be
read as a women's Tarot, to unlock the conscious and unconscious
realities surrounding certain questions and problems in women’s
lives. From a feminist point of view, they use the traditional
Tarot as a tool for self-analysis -- to explore women's inner
regions, and to hear women's inner voices.
"A Feminist Tarot gives us entry to
a knowledge of ourselves that we must never lose."--
Lesbian News
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By Sally Mann 1999/2000
Excerpt:
"Wanderground" raises a finer
theological point in the apparent loss of individual distinction
within its community. Gearhart treats the question with ambiguity.
Lefanu describes the effect as,
"Indeed the women are only differentiated
from each other in terms of what happens to them, not in terms of
who they are or how they act…Wanderground is a portrait of a
culture rather than a community" (Lefanu p65)
Is this a necessary outcome of the success of
Wanderground egalitarian society; creating equality at the expense
of individual identity? Should this be of theological concern? The
turn away from individuality gives birth to pantheism in this
novel. This is explored by the telepathic and telekinetic powers
of the women and their belief that,
"When one of the women dies, her life and
her memories are incorporated into a body of knowledge that is
transmitted through songs and stories and rememberings to all the
other women. She becomes part of the Wanderground culture." (Lefanu
p65)
What do Christian feminist theologians make of
this? Some might well applaud Wanderground as a community
resolving mind/body dualism, where real harmony is experienced not
only between the women but also between nature and humanity. Russ
describes Gearhart’s novel as,
"So suffused with the feeling of harmony
with nature that one quotation would understate the importance of
this." (Russ op cit. p.137)...
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