Lillian Faderman

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Lillian Faderman (* 18th July 1940 in Bronx , New York City ) is an American high school teacher of English and literature and has as its author wrote several books.

Life

Faderman was raised in childhood by her mother Mary and aunt Rae. Lillian's mother and aunt had emigrated from Latvia to the United States in 1923, where they initially lived in Manhattan . Her family members who remained in Latvia were deported and killed during the occupation of Latvia by the German Wehrmacht .

Faderman moved to Los Angeles with her mother and aunt during their childhood . There she attended Hollywood High School and met her first lesbian friend. Faderman studied at the University of California , Berkeley , where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1962 , and later at the University of California, Los Angeles , where she received her Masters in 1964 and her PhD in 1967. She currently works as a professor of English at California State University, Fresno .

Faderman has lived with her current partner Phyllis Irwin for 30 years. They have one son, Avrom , who received a PhD from Stanford University .

Works (selection)

  • Gay LA: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians , 2006
  • Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir , 2003.
  • To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History , 1999.
  • I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience , 1998.
  • Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th Century to the Present , 1994.
  • Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America , 1991.
  • Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon , 1983.
  • Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present , 1981
    • German by Fiona Dürler and Anneliese Tenisch: More delicious than the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to today. eco, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-85647-103-0 .

Awards

  • 1982: Stonewall Book Award
  • 1992: Lambda Literary Award (Editor's Choice Award) for Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
  • 1995: Lambda Literary Award for Chloe Plus Olivia
  • 2003: Lambda Literary Award for To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America in the Lesbian studies category
  • 2001: Yale University James Brudner Prize for Exemplary Scholarship in LGBT Studies
  • 2003: Lambda Literary Award for the best LGBT anthology
  • Paul Monette Award
  • Publishers Triangle Bill Whitehead Award
  • 2016: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

literature

  • Jennifer Scanlon, Shaaron Cosner: American women historians, 1700s-1990s: a biographical dictionary . Greenwood Press, Westport (Connecticut / USA) et al. 1996, ISBN 0-313-29664-2 . (English; pp. 76-77).
  • Gabriele Griffin: Who's who in lesbian and gay writing . Routledge, London et al. 2002, series: The Routledge who's who series, ISBN 0-415-15984-9 . (English; p. 69)

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personal data
SURNAME Faderman, Lillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City