Books written by Lillian Faderman
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Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
(Bernhard left the group in 1953 and went to San Francisco, where she worked with Ansel Adams and Imogene Cunningham.)95 From time to time, other lesbians joined Mattachine and occasionally even played substantial roles in the ...
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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.
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I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience
I Begin My Life All Over is an oral history of 36 real-life strangers in a strange land, an intimate study of the immigrant experience in contemporary America.
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Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour"
Award-winning author Lillian Faderman recreates the events surrounding this notorious case, which became the basis for Lillian Hellman's famous play, The Children's Hour.
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Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story that Inspired "The Children's Hour"
Lillian Faderman, award-winning author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, gives an extraordinary rendering of the real-life story on which Lillian Hellman based her famous play, The Children's Hour.
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Woman: The American History of an Idea
A14; Lesley Visser, “The Battle Is over the Law's Interpretation,” Boston Globe, June 15, 1978, p. ... Quoted in Kirsten Marie Delegard, Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States (Philadelphia: ...
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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Thompson could visit, but she was told she must come at times the Kowalski family wouldn't be there. She made the six-hour round-trip from Saint ... She wrote a book, Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home? Her tragedy struck a chord.
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Woman: The American History of an Idea
58; Dionne Espinoza, “Revolutionary Sisters: Women's Solidarity and Collective Identification among Chicana Brown ... Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space (Champaign: University of ...
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Great Events from History: Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender events, 1848-2006
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events selects events that help to mark the definition of gender, the emergence of social, cultural, and political movements, and the struggles to gain civil rights....
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My Mother's Wars
The story begins in 1914: Mary, the girl who will become Lillian Faderman’s mother, just seventeen and swept up with vague ambitions to be a dancer, travels alone to America, where her half-sister in Brooklyn takes her in.
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-century America
A broad spectrum of lesbian life, past and present.
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Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor.
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My Mother's Wars
The story begins in 1914: Mary, the girl who will become Lillian Faderman’s mother, just seventeen and swept up with vague ambitions to be a dancer, travels alone to America, where her half-sister in Brooklyn takes her in.
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My Mother's Wars
She joins the other picketers in shouting outlusty labor songs—“The Union Makes Us Strong,” “Hold the Fort for We Are Coming,” “ waving her ILGWU picket sign. Did You KNow THAT SweATshops STILL Exist?
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Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
Told with wrenching immediacy and great power, Naked in the Promised Land is the story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life.
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles.
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
As Faderman writes in her introduction, “This is a book about how millions of American women became what they are now: full citizens, educated, and capable of earning a decent living for themselves.” A landmark work of impeccable ...
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Speaking for Ourselves: American Ethnic Writing
The second edition of "Speaking for Ourselves" continues the original purpose of bringing together writers of different ethnic backgrounds, representing the two-thirds of the American population that is not white...
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Scotch Verdict
Scotch Verdict
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Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon ; a Verdict of Not Proven that is Allowed...
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon ; a Verdict of Not Proven that is Allowed...