Out of the Class Closet

Lesbians Speak

Plot

Contents
Class and consciousness / Julia Penelope --
Potato skins / Catherine Odette --
Very moving story / Alien Nation --
Goodbye to the house / Helen Elaine Lee --
Journal notes : exploring the possibility of an essay on class, poverty, etc. / Paula Gerber --
Camaraderie of the toothless, or the story of an ordinary, nice well-educated, middle-class, white, ashkenazi jewish girl / Merril Mushroom --
Dykes of poverty : coming home / Lee Evans --
Shifting horizons : navigating a life / Karen Chaney --
Nowhere at home / J.P. --
Lay all that mess down and talk / Joan Schuman --
Chicana, workingclass and proud : the case of the lopsided tortilla / Terri de la Peña --
We didn't even have words / Jessica Robbins --
Growing up upper class / Christian McEwen --
Whenever I tell you the language we use is a class issue, you nod your head in agreement --
and then you open your mouth / Elliott --
Getting class / Susan J. Wolfe --
What it means to be the daughter of my mother / Jamie Lee Evans --
One of the Murphy girls / Marilyn Murphy --
Wanted : an organization for Debutante Dykes Anonymous / Debbie Alicen --
Back to the bare bones ... and the broken teeth / Anna Livia --
Funeral food / Elliott --
Toothpaste, socks and contradictions / Pam McMichael --
Mixed-class confusion / Zana --
From battered wife to community volunteer : testimony of a welfare mother / Juana Maria Gonzalez Paz --
Why women are a (set of) class(es) / Fox --
New! Improved! Classless society / Nett Hart --
Class beyond classroom / Bonnie J. Morris --
Personal revelations concerning class / Jackie Anderson --
Class-ification by intelligence : some questions / Pat Dean --
"Just who do you think you are?" A sockdolager on social class vis-à-vis women, in catechetics, poem, story, and Cha Cha Cha, and featuring the Lettermen, me and my mom and dad, John Wayne as Elvis, and Spam / Linnea Johnson --
Headaches and ruminations / Chrystos --
Comparing class notes / Donna Allegra --
Just the facts Ma'm / Rita D. Brown --
(Un)common justice / Joanna Kadi --
Coming out about money : cost sharing across class lines / Felice Yeskel.