Lillian Faderman est une érudite reconnue internationalement dans l'histoire et la littérature lesbiennes, ainsi que dans l'histoire et la littérature ethniques. Son travail explore les histoires et les voix riches et souvent négligées qui ont façonné les communautés queer et leurs expressions littéraires. Faderman aborde les thèmes de l'identité, des relations et du changement social avec une intelligence pénétrante et un profond respect pour le passé.
Focusing on the fight for gay and lesbian rights, this book presents a compelling narrative enriched by interviews with politicians, military personnel, and members of the LGBT community. It highlights their personal experiences and the ongoing challenges they confront, offering a deep insight into the broader societal struggle for equality and acceptance. Through these diverse voices, the book illuminates the resilience and determination of those advocating for their rights.
Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor; his assassination made him the most famous gay man in modern history. Before finding his calling as a politician Milk fumbled to find the niche from which he could fulfill his aspirations. He rejected Judaism as a religion, but he was deeply influenced by the cultural values of his Jewish upbringing and his understanding of anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. Faderman provides context to Milk's life as a gay icon, a Jew, and a complex, if contradictory, man. -- adapted from front jacket and back cover
Focusing on late-nineteenth and twentieth-century women, this significant historical work explores how their lesbian identities played a crucial role in advocating for rights that benefit many Americans today. Lillian Faderman presents compelling evidence that these women's sexuality may have empowered their achievements. With thorough research and engaging prose, the book serves as both an enlightening resource and a source of pride for readers, highlighting the intersection of lesbian identity and social progress.
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.
Lillian Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life. "A key work...the point of reference from which all subsequent studies of 20th-century lesbian life in the United States will begin."—San Francisco Examiner.
Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life. 16 pages of photos. "Engaging . . . compelling . . . poignant and moving . . ".--The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
This classic cultural history draws on a rich variety of sources - from the writings of Casanova and Henry James to Ladies Home Journal and Adrienne Rich, along with trial records, love letters, pornography and more to explore 500 years of friendship and love between women. Lillian Faderman sheds new light on shifting theories of female sexuality and the changing status of women over the centuries. Surpassing the Love of Men demonstrates how nascent feminist values have always played a role in women's passions for one another and in men's reactions to them, from revulsion to ridicule to admiration. Hailed by the New York Times as "a welcome and needed history," this quietly revolutionary book interweaves forgotten and ignored strands of history in unexpected new ways. No person will finish it without his or her sensibilities changed.
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century