To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America-A History
A history book that rereads American women's history and re-evaluates the achievements of historical women through a lesbian lens.
Work Information
It revisits the relationships behind women’s movements, education, and professional advancement.
A Lambda Literary Award-winning work that connects institutional history and personal history, reinterpreting women’s achievements and relationships as lesbian history.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Published
- 1999-06-15
- Pages
- 480 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 16.51 x 3.81 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780395850107
- ISBN-10
- 039585010X
- Price
- 8283 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Gay & Lesbian
A groundbreaking women's history of America explores the roles of lesbian women in the battle to procure rights and privileges for Americans of both genders, arguiing that these early female leaders had lesbian relationships free from the constraints of traditional ties that would have impeded their goals. 25,000 first printing.
Lillian Faderman is the author of such acclaimed works as To Believe in Women, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, and Surpassing the Love of Men. Among the many honors her work has received are the Yale University James Brudner Award for Exemplary Scholarship in Lesbian/Gay Studies, three Lambda Literary Awards, and the Paul Monette Award. She teaches literature and creative writing at California State University at Fresno.
Reviews
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You could not tell this was a used copy, it seemed brand new. It's a lovely book, excellent author, her work becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. readable, fascinating, fantastic deal for a hardback
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Historian Lillian Faderman has been a pathbreaker with her research and writing about women’s role in US history and the cultural and social context in which LGBT people have negotiated their place in American society. To Believe in Women is one of Faderman’s earlier works, and it has informed and inspired other historians and writers to research further into these realms. I have benefited greatly by her research and histories in my own writing. To Believe in Women focuses on four public realms in which lesbians have had greatest impact: voting rights for women, social justice, education, and the professions. Within each area Faderman profiles women who were some of the most influential public figures of their times. What’s interesting, of course, is how many of these women are not known to the public as being lesbians. Their full lives have often been hidden from history -- sometimes by the women themselves who felt they must do so to have any public influence. In this work Faderman presented these women to the public, and in doing so, ensured that lesbians found their rightful place in women’s history and in the story of the United States. Michael Helquist, MARIE EQUI: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions
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Fantastic resource to lesbian history. This author does not mess around. She is known for her detailed research and this book is no exception. Even one who knows women's well history will learn so much from this book.
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Faderman writes so well, I found a used copy and it is fascinating enough that I downloaded the Kindle version too (it's cheap). I'd never really studied the suffragists as such, which is just chapter one, as far as I got on vacation. She focusses on one woman from each era to the present and structures the work around them to explain their eras and accomplishments.
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important book containing valuable social history.
Related Literary Awards
- Lambda Literary Awards Edition 12 (2000) ・Winner・Winner