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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Biography Autobiographies Biographies Lesbian essays Annotations (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Nestle, Joan, 1940- Restricted country. Ithaca, N.Y. : Firebrand Books, ©1987 (OCoLC)569774561 Online version: Nestle, Joan, 1940- Restricted country. Ithaca, N.Y. : Firebrand Books, ©1987 (OCoLC)609236133 |
Named Person: | Joan Nestle; Joan Nestle |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joan Nestle |
ISBN: | 0932379370 9780932379375 |
OCLC Number: | 16713256 |
Notes: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
Awards: | Gay and Lesbian Book Award (American Library Association), 1988 |
Description: | 189 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | I am -- Liberties not taken -- The killing air -- A restricted country -- The bathroom line -- Esther's story -- Lesbian memories 1: Riis Park, 1960 -- This huge light of yours -- Lesbian memories 2: the lower east side, 1966 -- Mara's room -- Stone butch, drag butch, baby butch -- Two women: Regina Nestle, 1910-1978, and her daughter, Joan -- Butch-femme relationships: sexual courage in the 1950s -- Voices from lesbian herstory -- My mother liked to fuck -- Some understandings -- The gift of taking -- A change of life -- A different place -- The three -- My history with censorship -- Lesbian memories 3: a night with Emma, 1986 -- Play my darling play -- Margaret -- Lesbians and prostitutes: an historical sisterhood -- When the lions write history -- Hope. |
Responsibility: | by Joan Nestle. |
Abstract:
Biography of Joan Nestle, working-class Jewish lesbian, writer, teacher, activist and co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City.
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