Product Description
The Lesbian and The Womanizer is a collection of humorous, naughty essays that have been published in the UK and Australia and not been available until now in the US.For some reason the US magazine market finds them too un-PC (for some reason it is okay to go from being straight to queer, but NOT the other way around--although my friends could care less and most of them are gay) or too sexy. The title piece was first published in The Guardian, Observer. There are five essays in all, each funnier than the last... I hope!

Included in this collection are two premiere pieces that have yet to be publishes: "Skype Me Baby" and "The I Luv Ewe". Thanks to digital media I am now able to make them available to my reading public. Enjoy!
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Customer Reviews (2)

A delightful comedy of the sexes
One of the things that makes life so enjoyable is that you never quite know what is going to happen next. So, when critically acclaimed lesbian writer, Heather Dune Macadam, is dumped by her lame artist girlfriend it seems like the end of the world. Enter James: a dashingly handsome,talented British writer whose umpteenth relationship has just collapsed as a result of his restless philandering. The two fall head over heels in love. And out of this unlikely encounter, Macadam weaves a wonderfully humorous,heart-warming tale about the foibles of men and women. Brilliant

Absolutely Hysterical!!!! A must read!
One of the most refreshing things I have read in a long time! I was laughing out loud with each sentence and am still chuckling to myself thinking about it. I'm so glad I came about Heather Dune Macadam's collection of essays, I am instantly a fan and am purchasing everything else available. A must have! ... Read more

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indispensible
Hoagland is a brilliant and incisive writer.She has a gift for presenting incredibly nuanced and complex ideas crystal clear.

I borrowed a copy from a friend and marked, and noted, and dog-eared, and highlighted it so much, I needed to buy her a new copy.The content is very rich, and there is much that is worthy of note within its pages.

Most importantly, Hoagland presents with clarity, refreshing hope, and conviction the idea that it is indeed possible to have authentic, free, loving, and equal relationships between human beings, relationships that are simply not based on domination and submission.Her goal is "moral revolution", "a conceptual framework, a new paradigm, in which oppression is not automatic - where rape, pogroms, slavery, lynchings, and colonialism are not even _conceivable_."

For anyone who shares Hoagland's hunger for such a paradigm, this book is truly indispensable.It is an excellent book for study in a community or collective with common goals, as it outlines concepts and tools that are essential to building authentic and egalitarian communities.This includes completely uprooting values about domination/subordination that are so central to mainstream (male-centered) anglo-european ethics from our thinking, our language, our behavior, our relationships, and our work, and replacing these values with a fundamental honoring of people's moral agency (our choices, our freedoms).

Again, Hoagland is concerned with fundamental culture change.She is a big-picture thinker who is encouraging those of us engaged in struggles against oppression to not just win battles but to win the war, to not accept the terms we are handed but to create and breathe meaning into new terms, to not remain riveted on "the masters", but to turn to and attend to each other, thereby creating whole new meanings, and whole new worlds.

A text for lesbian separatism
Sarah Hoagland's "Lesbian Ethics.." is a startling revelation about the nature of social structures and the nature of opression. She critiques the status quo systems of heterosexuality, provides the readerwith a lens to view our world, and offers a refreshing glimpse at apossible future.

Hoagland explains that the current systems of dominationand opression are fed by heterosexuality, the refusal to acknowledge otherform of sexuality. By rebelling within designated avenues of rebellion, andreforming within the expected lines of reform, those who wish to change thesystem unwittingly breathe life into it.

Hoagland concludes that in orderto defeat the system, we must separate from it, and in this revelation, sheincludes a brilliant metaphor about a king and his kingdom. She argues thata king cannot be a king with no subjects. In this way, separation from thesystem collapses it.

Though from a praxis standpoint, her conclusion isvague and formless, her arguments stand as guidelines for the nextrevolution: the sexually opressed versus the heterosexual opressors.

Ienjoyed this book, and it has become a window by which I can view theworld. ... Read more