A Fragile Union: New & Selected Writings
A collection of essays and narratives in which Joan Nestle writes about lesbian sexuality, butch-femme relationships, memory, history, and life with illness. Moving between intimacy and politics, the book reflects on the fragility and hope that shape community.
Work Information
It gives language to lesbian history by moving between intimacy and difference.
Gathering writings Joan Nestle had produced through the 1990s, this collection links the preservation of lesbian history with a record of personal desire. Sex, politics, illness, and affection for community are all narrated with direct emotional force.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Cleis Pr
- Published
- 1998-09-01
- Pages
- 495 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.61 x 0.64 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781573440400
- ISBN-10
- 157344040X
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Gay & Lesbian
A nationally prominent lesbian-feminist activist presents a collection of essays and narratives about lesbian relationships and sexuality, erotic literature, gay history, and her own battle with cancer. By the author of A Restricted Country. Original. Tour. IP.
Joan Nestle was born in New York City in 1940, a working class Jew raised by her mother who worked as a bookkeeper in the garment industry. She came out as lesbian in Greenwich Village in the 1950s, marched in Selma in 1965, joined the ranks of the feminist movement in 1971, and helped establish the Gay Academic Union in 1972. In 1973, Nestle and a group of lesbians she met in the Gay Academic Union founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which now fills a three-story building in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Joan Nestle is the author of A RESTRICTED COUNTRY and editor of THE PERSISTENT DESIRE: A FEMME-BUTCH READER. She has won numerous awards, including the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature, America Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award (A Restricted Country) and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Nonfiction.
Reviews
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An absolute classic
Joan Nestle is one of the most important feminist and queer writers, it's a pity her old books are so hard to access.