Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman

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Told with wrenching immediacy and great power, Naked in the Promised Land is the story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life. Table of contents for Naked in the promised land / Lillian Faderman. Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir, Lillian Faderman, Very Good Book Topic: Women, General, United States / General, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies Item. Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, and a new afterword from Lillian Faderman. Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir Author Lillian Faderman Contributor Carmen Maria Machado Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 ISBN 1448217547, 9781448217540 Length 480 pages. 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. Kp boken Naked in the Promised Land hos oss. Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and. 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.ĭesperately 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. Buy a cheap copy of Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir book by Lillian Faderman. Her only escape from the brutal labor of her sweatshop job was her fiercely. Her mother, whose family perished in the Holocaust, was racked by guilt at having come to America and left them behind she suffered recurrent psychotic episodes. Lillian grew up in poverty, but fantasised about becoming an actress. Born in 1940, Lillian Faderman was the only child of an uneducated and unmarried immigrant Jewish woman. '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.īorn 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.

Naked in the Promised Land by Lillian Faderman