Reviews: Sally Miller Gearhart

The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women (Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, 1978).

The Wanderground is a central lesbian separatist text from the 70s. In near-future earth, Mother Nature has revolted from the abuse heaped upon her: technology does not work and men are impotent outside of cities. Women (the hill-women) have created an alternate society based on psychic skills, communion with nature, and parthenogenesis. Women also infiltrate the cities (still run by straight men) and work with male homosexuals (the "gentles"). Gearhart has also co-authored the Feminist Tarot, which can be used either with its own set of cards, or to interpret traditional tarot. For similarly themed material, see Rochelle Singer's Demeter Flower.

--lq, 5/26/95; minor rev. 8/21/97; rev. 6/8/00; rev. 6/22/2002.

"Flossie's Flashes"

in Lesbian Love Stories, ed. Irene Zahara (Freedom, Calif., Crossing Press, 1989)
A Wanderground story.

"Roxie Raccoon"

in Through Other Eyes: Animal Stories by Women , ed. Irene Zahara (Freedom, Calif., Crossing Press, 1988)
A Wanderground story.

The Kanshou (2002)

(Little Blue Trilogy) (2002) Spinsters Ink Press; July 2002; ISBN 1883523443; 350 pp.

The Magister: Book II of Earthkeep (Little Blue Trilogy) (2003)

Spinsters Ink Press; May 2003; 1883523494; 302 pp.

Co-author of the Feminist Tarot, a book which can be used with traditional tarot cards or with its own set of cards.