Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir - Softcover

Faderman, Lillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299200140 ISBN 13: 9780299200145

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

2003 hardcover, Houghton Mifflin

Named among the best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Advocate

From the Back Cover:

"[A] painful dynamic--driven by Faderman's conflicting need to save herself and her mother--drives the book to disturbing emotional depths."--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0299200140
• ISBN 13: 9780299200145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368