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Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women by Laura André, Candace Walsh
bike's review
Dated at this point. Essays became very repetitive (I married a nice man, I had two kids, I was the perfect suburban wife and then I fell in love with a woman). Would have strongly benefited from more perspectives, especially ace and transgender perspectives. At one point also had a quite transmisogynistic line .
Quite apolitical as well, aside from frequent references to marriage equality.
Things I did like:
Exploration of how sexuality can be fluid and can change
Exploration of what it’s like to be in a queer relationship after having only been in straight relationships
Quite apolitical as well, aside from frequent references to marriage equality.
Things I did like:
Exploration of how sexuality can be fluid and can change
Exploration of what it’s like to be in a queer relationship after having only been in straight relationships
Content Warnings
Minor: Transphobia
julia0000's review
4.0
I throughly enjoyed this collection of stories. I enjoy studying sexual identity and these were very well written stories about many different womens' journeys. In the end it's all about love. I completely recomend it to all my open minded friends and anyone seeking some feminine enlightment.
nys_bookshelf's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
okay, some of these gworls were like, kinda fucked up with the way they cheated on their spouses lmfaooo, but it made for juicy story-telling I'll give them that!
library_brandy's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
As with any collection featuring multiple authors, the essays are hit or miss for me. It's a fascinating look at the wide range of experiences, though, of women who have left their (straight) marriages or relationships after figuring out that they're lesbians. I recognize that the scope of the book is specifically about women leaving men and therefore there are only a couple of essays that address in which the author and her husband are staying together, but my bigger question is about how few of the women here identify as bisexual--and even among those, the bi label is mostly a stepping stone to embracing their newly-discovered gay identity, not a complete identity of its own. I would've liked to have seen more from the actually bi perspective, instead of the casual erasure.