Product Description: FROM WEDDED WIFE TO LESBIAN LIFE presents personal stories of discovery and change by women who got married, defied tradition, and came out as lesbians. Drawing from a broad range of cultures and classes, this revealing collection of first-person essays, interviews, and poems offers a glimpse into the lives of such well-known lesbian authors as JoAnn Loulan, Margaret Randall, Margarethe Cammermeyer, Joanna Kadi, Ellen Bass, Joan Larkin, and Minnie Bruce Pratt, as well as emerging writers...read more

A biographical study of what it is like to be deaf explains how a deaf boy learned to read and speak, went to school, and grew up to become a newspaper editor and author, detailing the challenges of lipreading and new technologies that have made communication easier.