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Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
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Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir Paperback - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Lillian Faderman

Born in 1940, Faderman was the only child of an uneducated and unmarried immigrant Jewish woman. She became a brilliant student, loving partner, devoted mother, influential writer, and groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies. Told with wrenching immediacy, this is the nakedly honest story of an exceptional woman. Photos.


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The daughter of an unmarried immigrant Jewish garment worker whose family had perished in the Holocaust, Lillian Faderman dreamed of being an actress. Instead she worked her way through college by posing for nude photographs, and by stripping. She slowly discovered that her deepest erotic and emotional connections were to women. After nearly losing herself in a dangerous underworld of addicts, pimps, and prostitutes, she became a brilliant student, eventually earning a Ph.D. And she became a loving partner, a devoted mother, an influential writer, and a groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies.

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HOW COULD I NOT have spent years of my life lusting after the golden apple-the heft of it, the round, smooth feel of it, the curve of it in my small hand?

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  • Title Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
  • Author Lillian Faderman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, US
  • Date May 15, 2004
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780299200145 / 0299200140
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 5.7 x 0.93 in (22.96 x 14.48 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress subjects Jews - United States, Lesbians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003070541
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Lillian Faderman is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Woman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, and Surpassing the Love of Men. Among her many honors are Yale University's James Brudner Award for exemplary scholarship in lesbian and gay studies, three Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association awards, the Monette-Horwitz Award, the American Association of University Women's National Distinguished Scholar Award. She teaches literature and creative writing at California State University at Fresno.
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