{"product_id":"wild-mares-dianna-hunter-9781517902667","title":"Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-To-The-Land Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wry memoir of growing up, coming out, and going back to the land as a lesbian feminist in the rural Midwest of the 1960s and 70s\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction in the shadow of a strategic air command base. Communists and antiwar hippies were the enemy, but lesbians were a threat, too: they were unhealthy, criminal, and downright insane. It took Dianna a while to figure out that she was one, a little longer to discover how she fit in with her new communities in the city and the countryside. This is her story--a frank account by turns comic and painful of a well-behaved Midwestern girl finding her way through polite denial and repression and running head-on into the eye-opening events of the 1960s and '70s before landing on a dairy farm.\u003cp\u003eA bumpy route takes Dianna to the Twin Cities, then to rural Minnesota and Wisconsin as--by way of the antiwar movement, women's liberation, and a dose of lesbian feminism--she and her friends try to establish a rural utopia free of sexual oppression, violence, materialism, environmental degradation--and men. They dream big, love as they see fit, and make do until they don't. Dianna buys a dairy farm and, with it, a new set of problems thanks to the Reagan-era farm crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA firsthand account of the lesbian feminist movement at its inception, \u003ci\u003eWild Mares\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal, wryly wise, and always engaging view of identity politics lived and learned in real life and, literally, on the ground, flourishing in the fertile soil of a struggling dairy farm in the American heartland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dianna Hunter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517902665\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517902667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Dianna Hunter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149575516415,"sku":"9781517902667","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cf5bb901-0f69-420f-926c-da5edef38dc1.jpg?v=1688457412","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wild-mares-dianna-hunter-9781517902667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}