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lizawall's review against another edition
5.0
I have been thinking about this all the time since I read it!
I think I expected something a little, I don't know, dreamier or something based on the title. Instead it is a collection of sharp, smart analytical essays.
I was really fascinated by the connections between the early gay rights movement and the labor movement. Also, of course, the more interplay of the sexual and the political for Hollibaugh in her own life, and the fierce stakes of her femme identity.
I think I expected something a little, I don't know, dreamier or something based on the title. Instead it is a collection of sharp, smart analytical essays.
I was really fascinated by the connections between the early gay rights movement and the labor movement. Also, of course, the more interplay of the sexual and the political for Hollibaugh in her own life, and the fierce stakes of her femme identity.
clementinemorrigan's review against another edition
5.0
A really important book. This should really be on the reading list of queer studies courses and is a must read for people interested in queer history, organizing, butch/femme relationships, hiv, class, and sex work, among other things.
silodear's review against another edition
I don't know if I read *all* of this book... maybe nearly all.
lolaleviathan's review against another edition
5.0
Hollibaugh's essays deal with so many things I always wanted to bring up in my women's and queer studies classes. She talks about actual people having actual sex! Crazy! The essays and conversations in this collection touch on desire, class, sex work, monogamy and sexual jealousy, children's sexuality, the importance of reproductive freedom to the queer liberation movement and the importance of queer liberation to feminism, lesbianism and AIDS, race, drag queens, power in sex... oh, so many crucial, interesting questions and observations, presented in a clear and personal way. Hollibaugh's got activist credentials out the wazoo, but she never comes across as preachy. And as a woman who dated woman and is now dating a dude, I really relate to her struggle with her high femme desires and identity, is that weird? Oh, and this book also has two things that mean I will automatically love it: photo inserts and Gayle Rubin. "My Dangerous Desires" was just what I needed to inspire me to read and write and THINK after a year of WGS withdrawal.
trillium9's review against another edition
An excellent and thought provoking collection. It gave me lots to consider, and much of the content is just as important to the queer resistance today as it was when first written.
jen_b's review against another edition
4.0
i saw her speak and was really inspired so picked up this book - she's a radical femme with graying hair and lots of wisdom in her book and the talk i heard, she speaks eloquently about class and queerness in ways i have rarely heard. the book tells her stories of coming into her power in different ways.
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