Married Women Who Love Women, Second Edition
During middle age, after 25 years of happy marriage to a man,  Carren Strock fell in love with a woman. After a period of intense  confusion and pain, Strock came to accept her sexuality and realize  that there were other women who discovered lesbianism in the context of a  heterosexual marriage.  This book is based on interviews that Strock  conducted with more than 100 women who had that experience--60 percent of whom were between  the ages of 36 and 55--as well as their husbands, children, and  lovers.  Some women in this situation have remained in the closet, either  repressing their desires or keeping their affairs secret.  Others have  come out to husbands and friends and been able to incorporate their  lesbianism into their marriages.  Others have ended their marriages.   The very personal voices in this book remind us that most women who  came of age before the relatively tolerant present did so in a culture  in which lesbianism was not regarded as a healthy sexual possibility  but as a shameful perversion.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.