Intimate politics : how I grew up Red, fought for free speech, and became a feminist rebel / Bettina F. Aptheker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aptheker, Bettina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aptheker, Bettina.

Incest victims--United States--Biography.

Incest victims.

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

United States.

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

549 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Emeryville, CA : Seal Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2006]

Summary:

At eight years old, Bettina F. Aptheker watched her family's politics play out in living rooms across the country when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in the McCarthy Hearings in 1953. Born into one of the most influential Communist families in America, whose friends included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bettina Aptheker witnessed firsthand one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also lived with terrible secrets: childhood sexual abuse and a frightening and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions. A gripping and beautifully rendered memoir, Intimate Politics is, at its core, the story of one woman's struggle to still the demons of her personal world, to break the silence of family secrets, and to speak her truth, no matter what the cost.

Contents:

Prologue: Bearing witness

Introduction: Beginnings

A childhood in two worlds

Upheavals in Berkeley

A wedding, a trial, and a war

Communist life and the movement to free Angela Davis

Coming out and coming home

An opening of the heart

Endings

Epilogue: Looking forward.

ISBN:

158005160X

OCLC:

67773644

Publisher Number:

9781580051606