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Carolyn G. Heilbrun I Beautiful Shadow: a Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amanda Nash Anash@Wellesley.Edu 7 Marie J The Women’s Review of Books Vol. XXI, No. 3 December 2003 74035 $4.00 I In This Issue I Political organizers are serious, while the patrons of drag bars and cabarets just wanna have fun, right? Julie Abraham challenges the cate- gories in her review of Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco. Cover story D I Before she died, Carolyn Heilbrun contributed a final essay to the Women’s Review—a discussion of Beautiful Shadow: A Biography of Patricia Highsmith. The piece expresses Heilbrun’s lifelong inter- est in writing women’s lives, and we publish it with pride and sadness, along with a tribute to the late scholar and mystery novelist. p. 4 Kay Scott (right) and tourists at Mona's 440, a drag bar, c. 1945. From Wide Open Town. I When characters have names like Heed the Night, L, and Celestial, we could be nowhere but in a Toni Morrison novel. Despite Tales of the city its title, Love, her latest, is more by Julie Abraham philosophical exploration than pas- Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 by Nan Alamilla Boyd. sionate romance, says reviewer Deborah E. McDowell. p. 8 Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 319 pp., $27.50 hardcover. I I The important but little-known n Wide Open Town, Nan Alamilla Boyd so much lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender feminist Lucy Stone, who stumped presents queer San Francisco as the scholarship, have served as key points of the country for women’s suffrage, Iproduct of a town “wide open” to all reference in US queer studies over the past forms of pleasure, all forms of money-mak- two decades. kept her own name after marriage, ing, and the conjunction of the two. Boyd’s To embark on any such project is a bold and advocated for divorce, is the work is the latest addition to a series of move. But to take up San Francisco was par- subject of a much-needed new place-based studies by historians and anthro- ticularly brave, given the many already avail- pologists as well as geographers and urban- able accounts of queer San Francisco. San biography, Woman’s Voice, ists—including George Chauncey’s Gay New Francisco was the setting for one of the ear- Woman’s Place. p. 16 York, Elizabeth Kennedy and Madeline liest studies of lesbian feminist community, Davis’ Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold (about by Deborah Wolf, in the late 1970s. The city I and more... Buffalo, New York), Esther Newton’s Cherry appeared as the model of gay urban life in Grove, Fire Island, Marc Stein’s City of Sisterly geographer and social critic Manuel Castells’ 12> and Brotherly Loves (about Philadelphia), and 1983 landmark study The City and the Moira Rachel Kenney’s Mapping Gay L.A.— Grassroots (to which so many studies of that take their particular locations as the queer urban life still refer), and in journalist frame for detailed explorations of social and in journalist and cultural critic Frances relations, politics, and culture. Such studies, Fitzgerald’s attempt to characterize the 0374470 74035 each in their own way carrying forward the 1980s, in part through a portrait of the PRINTED IN THE USA impulse to recovery that was the origin of continued on page three The Women’s Review Contents of Books Wellesley College Center for Research on Women Wellesley, MA 02481 1 Julie Abraham I Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (781) 283-2087/ (888) 283-8044 by Nan Alamilla Boyd www.wellesley.edu/WomensReview Volume XXI, No. 3 4 Letters December 2003 4 REMEMBERING CAROLYN HEILBRUN EDITOR IN CHIEF: Amy Hoffman [email protected] 5 Carolyn G. Heilbrun I Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith by Andrew Wilson PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amanda Nash [email protected] 7 Marie J. Kuda I Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s by Marijane Meaker CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Martha Nichols, Jan Zita Grover 8 Deborah E. McDowell I Love by Toni Morrison POETRY EDITOR: Robin Becker ADVERTISING MANAGER: Anita D. 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