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Love Upon the Chopping Board

Marou Izumo and Claire Maree (translated by Claire Maree)
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Marou and Claire met at a bar in Tokyo. Separated by seventeen years in age, by their cultural origins and by the requirements of visas, they have managed to maintain their relationship through these vicissitudes.

Autobiography, duography, love story, cross-cultural reflections, lesbian history – Love Upon the Chopping Board is all of these things and more exploring the personal and political of being lesbians in Japan and Australia.

Marou Izumo was born in Japan in 1951 and became involved in Japan’s first lesbian feminist group in 1977. She has worked in women’s theatre, is a columnist and author of a collection of essays on cinema. Claire Maree was born in Western Australia in 1968, and now resides in Tokyo. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Australia and Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, and extracts of her work have previously appeared in the anthologies Car Maintenance, Explosives and Love .

‘Highly recommended for anyone who wants to increase their range of view.’ —Crusader Hillis, OUT Magazine
‘… a deeply personal account.’ —Sue Green, South China Morning Post



This publication is assisted by the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body

Marou Izumo and Claire Maree attend Melbourne Writers Festival 2000

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ISBN 1875559825 
lesbian/auto/biographical/Asian Studies/cross-cultural/Multicultural
175pp 128x198mm 
Territories: World XJapan 
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