THE NEXT STEP Lesbians in Long-Term Recovery (Out from Under, Vol 2) - Softcover

Similar to Swallow's first collection of articles on recovery, Out from Under: Sober Dykes and Our Friends (Spinsters, 1983), The Next Step compiles over 30 accounts of how lesbians achieve "double-digit" sobriety (ten or more years). Mostly comprising personal essays, plus a few poems, a song, and a couple of question-and-answer interviews, the book demonstrates the difficulty many lesbians have in achieving long-term recovery from substance abuse, especially when coupled with incest and other sexually related trauma. While the stories of others are often helpful in such circumstances, this book reaches out to a very limited audience and is therefore recommended only for libraries with special collections of substance abuse counseling materials or large gay and lesbian studies collections.
A. Arro Smith, San Marcos P.L., San Marcos, Tex.
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