Naked in the Promised Land
A Memoir
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2020
480 pages
978-1-4482-1754-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
8pp B&W photo plate section
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-1754-0 (9781448217540)
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02/2020
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Persons
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.
Content
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
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
