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.
- ISBN10 1299885330
- ISBN13 9781299885332
- Publish Date 1 January 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format eBook
- Language English