Lillian Faderman, Author . Houghton Mifflin $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-618-12875-4
While Faderman (To Believe in Women) is well known as the foremother of gay and lesbian studies, few would suspect she was the illegitimate child of a guilt-obsessed single mother, that she tried to please her mom by becoming a movie star or that...
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Lillian Faderman. Simon & Schuster, $35 (832p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9411-6
Faderman (Naked in the Promised Land), a scholar of lesbian history and literature, renders the slow transformation of culture into a sweeping narrative of the American struggle for gay and lesbian civil rights. She digs deep into media and...
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Lillian Faderman, Author, Ghia Xiong, With Beacon Press (MA) $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7234-9
Faderman (Speaking for Ourselves) offers a perspective on immigration to this country that artfully combines the personal and the universal. By linking together 35 narratives from Hmong immigrants displaced from their native Laos by the war in...
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Lillian Faderman, Author, Lillian Faderman, Editor Viking Books $29.95 (848p) ISBN 978-0-670-84638-2
This hefty assemblage of poetry, fiction, journals and correspondence from more than 75 women and men charts the evolution of the lesbian psyche and lesbian fictional characters through four centuries. Grouping her material into six sections,...
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Lillian Faderman, Author, Stuart Timmons, Author . Basic $29.95 (431p) ISBN 978-0-465-02288-5
This social, political and cultural history of lesbian and gay life in Los Angeles by two seasoned historians is easily the subject's definitive work. Presenting a wealth of fact and analysis, Faderman (Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
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Lillian Faderman. Yale Univ., $32.50 (576p) ISBN 978-0-300-24990-3
In this immersive history, LGBTQ scholar Faderman (Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death) charts changes in America’s “ideal of womanhood” from the 17th century to the present. Characterizing women’s progress as a pendulum that advances during historical
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