WOMANSHARE COLLECTIVE
Country Lesbians: The story of the WomanShare collective

Country Lesbians: The story of the WomanShare collective is a book co-authored by five lesbian women who settled in a self-contained community in Southern Oregon in the 1970s: Sue Deevy, Billie Miracle, Nelly Kaufer, Carol Newhouse and Dian Wagner. In the summer of 1973, they sought to escape the masculine and patriarchal culture of the big city. Joined by Sue Deevy and Nelly Kaufer, they bought their land and founded WomanShare, a separatist community where they lived, built, farmed and wrote independently. [publishers’ note]

This facsimile was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Country Lesbians. An archive of the Womanshare collective, curated Salomé Burstein, Louise Toth, and Alexis De Bonis at Shmorévaz, Paris, in 2024. 

Published by ness books / Shmooks, 2024
Design by Espace Ness
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