Lillian Faderman

Naked in the Promised Land (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This modern classic of LGBT writing includes an introduction from Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, and a new afterword from Lillian Faderman.

Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman who left Latvia to seek a better life in America.

Lillian grew up in poverty, but fantasised about becoming an actress. When her dreams led to the dangerous, seductive world of the sex trade and sham-marriages in Hollywood of the fifties, she realised she was attracted to women, and that show-biz is as cruel as they say.

Desperately seeking to make her life meaningful, she studied at Berkeley; paying her way by working as a pin-up model and burlesque dancer, hiding her lesbian affairs from the outside world. At last she became a brilliant student and the woman who becomes a loving partner, a devoted mother, an acclaimed writer and ground-breaking pioneer of gay and lesbian scholarship.

Told with wrenching immediacy and great power, Naked in the Promised Land is the story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448217540
• Artikelnr.: 58509415

Autorenporträt

Lillian Faderman is an internationally-known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature. Her many honours include six Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association Awards, and several lifetime achievement awards for scholarship. She is the author of Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death, The Gay Revolution, Surpassing the Love of Men, and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part One: Lilly 1 How I Became an Overachiever 2 Going Crazy in
East L.A. 3 Crushed 4 Men I 5 Shedding Part Two: Lil 6 Hollywood 7 My
Movie-Actress Nose 8 The Open Door 9 Getting the Gift of Wisdom 10 Kicked
Out 11 A Jewish Prince 12 A Married Woman Part Three: Lillian 13 Higher
Education 14 How I Became a Burlesque Queen 15 Men II 16 Professor Faderman
17 How I Became a College Administrator 18 Sheaves of Oats 19 Epilogue
Afterword Acknowledgements About the Author