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'the woman who wouldn’t shake hands' by Chocolate Waters and 'Bad Wife Spankings' by Valerie Wetlaufer

Julie R. Enszer
August 24, 2011

Chocolate Waters’s three earlier books of poetry, To the man reporter from the Denver Post, Take Me Like a Photograph, and Charting New Waters, were published between 1975 and 1980. They all reflect the energy and imagination of the lesbian-feminist print movement during the 1970s and 1980s…. read more



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