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Books of iterest to women:

THE GRAPEVINE by Jess Stearn, Doubleday, 1964, 372 pp,

$4.95

The Grapevine is subtitled A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian. It is mainly a report on interviews with lesbians and a chapter on the DOB's 1962 convention and a chapter on Ladder and the organization. Those who have read The Sixth Man, also written by Stearn, will know what to expect.

WHAT IS REMEMBERED by Alice Toklas (Holt) $4.00 Reminiscences of the author's much talked about friendship with Gertrude Stein. Many Photos.

$3.75

GIVE ME MYSELF by Susan Sherman (World) "At college, at orgiastic parties in Greenwich Village, and finally in Italy, Nona cannot tear herself away from this woman This is a subtle and compelling portrait

of a child who is striving to become a woman.”

TOMBOY by Arline McNamee Hammond (Comet) $3.00 A maturing woman looks back to her tomboy childhood . . . without a single overt act, she begins a harrowing period of morbid introspection, touching tangentially on the homosexual theme.

WOMEN WITHOUT MEN by David George Kin (Brookwood)

$2.50

"True stories of Lesbian love in Greenwich Village," this is basically a dishonest and uninteresting book. VIRGINITY PRE-NUPTIAL RITES AND RITUALS Dr. Ottokar Nemecek (Philosophical Library) $4.75 This book elucidates the concept of virginity from the anatomical, moral and sexual points of view primitive and modern societies. . explaining the wide range of forms of virginity (from the nun to the demivierge, from matriarchal times to our own day).

FEMAL OFFENDER by Caesar Lombroso (Philosophical Library)

both

$5.00

Lombroso, with Bleuler, Kraepelin and Wundt, were giants of 19th century psychiatry and psychology. A classic in the field.

ONE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY of Homophile Studies

$1.00

Numbers 6 and 7, containing articles on Lesbians: "On Gertrude Stein", "Research on Lesbians" (DOB with USC Psychologist Virginia Armon).

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