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Bertha Harris. Lover
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LOVER
PRAISE FOR LOVER
The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature
Editorial Board
Contents
Foreword
Introduction. How Lover Happened in the First Place: 1
Lover Falls in Love with the Women’s Movement: 2
Lover Enjoys Postmodernism: 3
Lover’s Stab at Manhating: 4
Life Before Lover: 5
Lover Regards Print: 6
Lover Gets Published: 7
Lover’s Beloved: 8
LOVER
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After I gave June and Parke Lover, I gradually handed over most of my life to them and to Daughters. I justified my self-abandon by maintaining that I was merging my personal with my political in an area (writing and publishing) for which I was most suited. I thought how lucky I was that they wanted me.
Since 1972, I’d had full-time employment at Richmond College of the City University of New York, where I taught in the Women’s Studies program. I had other serious, time-consuming responsibilites, both professional and personal, as well. I had been, except emotionally, a self-sustaining adult since I was sixteen. But in 1976, shortly after Lover was published, June asked me to take on all her editorial work so that she could write full-time. Without pausing to consider when, with both a full- and a parttime job—and a life—I would find time to write myself, I accepted. My mother’s chief contribution to my upbringing had been to beat my legs and back with a walking cane every time she thought that I was, in her words, “showing off” or giving the appearance of believing that I was “better than other people.” By the time I met June and Parke, I had become so adept at self-effacement that I could make myself disappear at will. My mother told me that because of me, she’d been cheated of everything she ever wanted. I am, to this day, very careful never to compete with other women; I will go to any amount of trouble to help a woman get what she says she wants; if I must sacrifice something I want in the process, so much the better. Sometimes this behavior is mistaken for feminism; it is penance.
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