Our Bodies, Our Books

Three alums have recently published collections of essays and in let-views on some of society's most hotly debated topics;

In Experiencing Abortion: A Weavingof Women's Words, Eve Kushner '90 brings the abortion discussion beyond legislation and courtrooms to the women themselves who have had abortions. Kushner gives a powerful voice to 115 such women. Guided by Kushner, the women candidly share their personal and unique responses to their abortions. (Harrington Park Press)

Gay Men at the Millennium: Sex,Spirit, Community, edited by Michael Lowenthal '90, is a compendium ofincisive articles from today's gay literature on questions that confront gay males—that provocative segment of our society who, in the words of one of them, "cannot often speak to the families that raised them and have no role models to practice their emerging personalities." Editor Lowenthal contributes a sensitive introduction to each of the book's three sections, in which 28 prer eminent writers treat such topics as gay marriage; the challenge of monogamy in relationships; the desirability of assimilation; the changing (or relentlessly unchanging) attitudes of the church toward homosexuality; and hovering over all, the spectre of AIDS and its role in the multiple conflicts of one's personal propensity vs. a suspicious society—unyielding Hope vs. life-and-death reality. The book is thoughtful and occasionally impassioned sioned reading for individuals who, regardless of sexual persuasion, are observers or participants in this major problem of social life today. (Jeremy P.Tarcher/Putnam)

The 13. essays in The Erotics of Instruction, edited by Regina Barreca '79 arid Deborah Denenholz Morse, are loaded with horiesty and freshness about a topic that is so often hushed the dynamic and sometimes heated relationship between professors and students. The collection explores this dynamic in both life and literature.

The editors, who each contribute an essay, bring their experiences as former students and current professors to the pages. (University Press of New England)