Not to be Denied
By: Jan Anthony
Not To Be Denied captures humorous, sad, and, scary family life between 1900 and 1970: The Depression, wars and life at home, schizophrenia; tomboy girls and teen girlfriends, sexual encounters, children, husbands, and individuals’ choices that shape them.
“Before all else, you are a wife and mother.” But Jan becomes a liberal newspaper reporter; Bea, a femme fatale. Passion explodes in their early ‘40s. Liberal religion and Transactional Analysis (TA) weekends bring them together. Their paths meld when these naïve lovers test their magnetic attraction after Jan asks, “What could it hurt if we just let it happen?”
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In The Whistling Girls & Crowing Hens Series, two straight married women risk families and careers, leave society’s compulsory heterosexuality in 1972, and boldly survive in an uncharted, intimate relationship.Jan and Bea experience historic events in the women’s movement and gay/lesbian world in their 39 years together. Each book presents deeper levels on major topics and adventures.