A sturdy yes of a people : selected writings / Joan Nestle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nestle, Joan, 1940- author.

Series:

Sapphic classics

A Sapphic classic

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--United States.

Lesbians.

Lesbianism--United States.

Lesbianism.

Nestle, Joan, 1940-.

Nestle, Joan.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

412 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Dover, FL : Sinister Wisdom, 2022.

Summary:

For over fifty years, Joan Nestle has been chronicling lesbian and queer life boldly with guts, heart, and moral suasion. A STURDY YES OF A PEOPLE gathers Nestles most influential writing into a single volume presenting her persistent involvement in liberation movements, LGBTQ histories, erotic writing, and archives that document gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives. Embedded in tales of lesbian desire are Nestle's concerns with the power of class and race in America to exile bodies. From Nestle's earliest popular essays such as "Lesbians and Prostitutes: An Historical Sisterhood" to more recent powerfully evocative pieces like "I Lift My Eyes to the Hill" in which Nestle, a white lesbian, traces the life of her friend, African-American lesbian Mabel Hampton, A Sturdy Yes of a People gathers both her most enduring insights and new provocations for readers and fans to treasure or discover. Scholar Carolyn D'Cruz of La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia situates Nestle's work and its power while an afterword by Susie Bright reminds readers of how transgressive and potent Nestle's sex writing was--and remains. A bold and original thinker, deeply connected with her communities, with an abiding willingness to reexamine and reimagine queer lives by integrating new ideas, challenges, and experiences, Nestle dazzles as a powerful thinker, writer, and theorist.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Liberation

My Mother Liked to Fuck

Liberties Not Taken

Lesbian Memories 1: Riis Park, 1960

My Fem Quest

Doesn't She Ever Stop Talking

Some Understandings

Passion Is Our Politics

Letter to My Community: A Sturdy Yes of a People

History

A Restricted Country

Butch-Fem Relationships: Sexual Courage in the 1950s

A Fragile Union

This Huge Light of Yours

Narratives of Liberation: Pluralities of Hope

Two Women: Regina Nestle, 1910

1978, and Her Daughter, Joan

John Preston and Myself

Who Were We to Do Such a Thing?

Sex

Esther's Story

On Rereading "Esther's Story"

A Change of Life

A Feeling Comes

Taking Rita Hayworth in My Mouth

My Cancer Travels

Education

My History with Censorship

Lesbian Sex and Surveillance

Wars and Thinking

The Politics of Thinking

Archives

Lesbians and Prostitutes: An Historical Sisterhood

When The Lions Write History

"I Lift My Eyes to the Hill": The Life of Mabel Hampton as Told by a White Woman

The Will to Remember: My Journey with the Lesbian Herstory Archives

The Beauty of the Unarmed Human Body

Voices from Lesbian Herstory.

ISBN:

9781944981525

1944981527

OCLC:

1350412961

Publisher Number:

99992639885