Esther Newton

My Butch Career

A Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

Esther Newton is formerly Term Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and Professor of Anthropology at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Margaret Mead Made Me Gay and Cherry Grove, Fire Island, both also published by Duke University Press, as well as Mother Camp.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781478001294
• ISBN-10: 1478001291
• Artikelnr.: 51990259

Autorenporträt

Esther Newton, one of the pioneers of gay and lesbian studies, is formerly Term Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan and Professor of Anthropology at Purchase College, State University of New York. She is the author of several books, including Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas and Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town, both also published by Duke University Press, as well as the groundbreaking Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. A Hard Left Fist  18
2. A Writer's Inheritance  33
3. Manhattan Tomboy  56
4. California Trauma  72
5. Baby Butch  81
6. Anthropology of the Closet  102
7. Lesbian Feminist New York  119
8. The Island of Women  160
9. In-Between Dyke  183
10. Paris France  198
11. Butch Revisited  237
Notes  249
Bibliography  261
Index  265