Newton Esther Newton

My Butch Career (eBook, PDF)

A Memoir

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In My Butch Career Esther Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity. Newton recounts a series of traumas and conflicts, from being molested as a child to her failed attempts to live a "e;normal,"e; straight life in high school and college. She discusses being denied tenure at Queens College and nearly again so at SUNY Purchase. With humor and grace, she describes her introduction to middle-class gay life and her love affairs. By age forty, where Newton's narrative ends, she began to achieve personal and scholarly stability in the company of the first politicized generation of out lesbian and gay scholars with whom she helped create gender and sexuality studies. Affecting and immediate, My Butch Career is a story of a gender outlaw in the making, an invaluable account of a beloved and influential figure in LGBT history, and a powerful reminder of only how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002727
• Artikelnr.: 54786530

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