A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture RIAS Forms of Appointment Architecture

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what began as visionary concepts - sometimes utopian

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture RIAS Forms of Appointment ArchitectureFor as long as queer women have existed, they've created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. In A Place of Our Own, journalist June Thomas invites readers into six iconic lesbian spaces over the course of the last sixty years, including the rural commune, the sex toy boutique and the feminist bookstore. She also illuminates what is gained and lost in the shift from the exclusive, tight knit women's spaces of the '70s toward today's more