Kate Marks

I think the scholarship behind this book could stand to be more rigorous. It was a wonderful resource for its time but has been supplanted by better-researched and more comprehensive song collections, such as Julie Forrest Middleton's *Songs for Earthlings.* Now, nearly a decade and a half after I bought my copy, it's a useful idea book, but the documentation is unreliable.

(In the interest of full disclosure, I should acknowledge that as a man, even a gay-as-a-goose man, I can obviously speak with no authority on the usefulness of a resource for celebrating women's/-yn's mysteries. I should also note that I have, since purchasing Marks's book, met and become friends with Julie Forrest Middleton.)… (plus d'informations)