Naked in the Promised Land - A Memoir (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Reader
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2020
Authors:	Lillian Faderman
Foreword by:	Carmen Maria Machado
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	480
ISBN-13:	978-1-4482-1753-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Refugees & political asylum Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Prostitution Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4482-1753-9
Barcode:	9781448217533

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