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...People who are looking for money have certain needs, and people who are giving away money have certain criteria," says 25-year-old Mary Beth Shea, assistant director and co-founder of the FSC. "The problem is that there are so many grant programs covering all kinds of fields." The Clearinghouse claims to keep track of some 50,000 public and private grant programs...
...techniques in nontechnical terms and concludes with an essay on fertility control. For those who are uneasy about abortion, there is also an index of clergy consultation services and Planned Parenthood affiliates across the country. The text is written with unusual insight and compassion, for good reason: the author, Beth Richardson Gutcheon, 28, a grandniece of Dr. John Rock, the birth control pioneer, has had two abortions herself...
...dust jacket says that Miss Piercy has become active in the feminist movement, and instead of creating believable characters, she has set some stick figures in motion to illustrate her conviction that women would be better off if they organized their lives without men. There are two main characters. Beth is a plain girl from a very simple background who runs away from a brutalizing husband and settles in Boston, where she becomes involved in women's communes and lesbianism. Miriam is a brilliant beauty who wastes her energies on a succession of truculent male losers...
...broke and oddly exhilarated. Even in these scenes without men, the musk of female superiority is heavy indeed. The children grow strong, tough and alert. Organic rye bread rises on every page, along with wheat germ, Granola and currents. Sex with another woman seems a sure cure for repression. Beth learns "to love with her body, to express with her body, to know with her body." There are trackless acres of such prose. It is all enough to give lesbianism a bad name-and vegetarianism too. ∎Martha Duffy
...four girls--sisters in an impoverished family--is tight; their family protects them from the outside world. Cozily ensconced, they cope with various emotional and moral problems while the Civil War rages in the background, sensed but not really perceived. Anybody can remember her adolescent tears shed at Beth's death and the laughter at Jo's contests with Aunt March...