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A restricted country / by Joan Nestle.
Van Pelt Library HQ75.4.N47 A3 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nestle, Joan, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nestle, Joan, 1940-.
- Nestle, Joan.
- Lesbians--United States--Biography.
- Lesbians.
- United States.
- Lesbianism--United States.
- Lesbianism.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages ; 22 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Firebrand Books, [1987]
- Summary:
- Biography of Joan Nestle, working-class Jewish lesbian, writer, teacher, activist and co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York City.
- Contents:
- I am
- Liberties not taken
- The killing air
- A restricted country
- The bathroom line
- Esther's story
- Lesbian memories 1: Riis Park, 1960
- This huge light of yours
- Lesbian memories 2: the lower east side, 1966
- Mara's room
- Stone butch, drag butch, baby butch
- Two women: Regina Nestle, 1910-1978, and her daughter, Joan
- Butch-femme relationships: sexual courage in the 1950s
- Voices from lesbian herstory
- My mother liked to fuck
- Some understandings
- The gift of taking
- A change of life
- A different place
- The three
- My history with censorship
- Lesbian memories 3: a night with Emma, 1986
- Play my darling play
- Margaret
- Lesbians and prostitutes: an historical sisterhood
- When the lions write history
- Hope.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Gay and Lesbian Book Award (American Library Association), 1988
- Stonewall Book Award, Winner, 1988
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nestle, Joan, 1940- Restricted country.
- ISBN:
- 0932379370
- 9780932379375
- OCLC:
- 16713256
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