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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Second Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; Preface to the First Edition: My Life as an American Artist; Introduction; PART I: ESSAYS 1981-1994; 1981 Fear and Loathing on the Hallelujah Trail; An Open Letter; 1982 Tensions Run High as Reproductive Rights Activists Form Coalitions; Critical History of Black Women; The Convention; Nyack and a History of Strategies Disputed; The Pro-Family Left; Riding the Go-Go Bus Home: An Interview with Diane Torr; Who Wants to Drive Blues out of Business? |
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1983 Fifteen Hour Circus Ends in ArrestsGay Books Back in School; I Have My Doubts about the Seneca Peace Encampment; Zaps Off with Fines after Threatening Congress; Adrienne Rich Transformed by Nicaraguan Visit; 1984 Low Marks for German Democracy; 1985 Entry Fee Disputed at Black Lesbian Bar; Feds Stop Anti-Violence Grants to Women's Groups: Cite Lesbian Rights as Anti-Family; AIDS Reported in the Soviet Union; New York: A Mass of Individually Beautiful Faces; A.C.L.U. Founds Gay Project; AIDSPAC Established by DC Group; Lip-Synching at Shescape; Straight Ads Hurt Gay Firm |
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Saving Our Space on the Lower East Side: An Interview with Marguerita LopezHealth or Homophobia? Responses to the Bathhouse Guidelines; Koch Ready to Close More Bathhouses; Committee Resolves to Close Baths: Maloney Joins Anti-Gay Sellout; Gay Activist Arrested; Becoming an Angry Mob in the Best Sense: Lesbians Respond to AIDS Hysteria; 1986 When We Were Very Young: A Walking Tour through Radical Jewish Women's History on the Lower East Side 1879-1919; Court Battles Continue in Lesbian Visitation Case; Joy of Gay Sex Removed from Brooklyn Libraries; Desert Hearts; Heal Thyself; Jean Genet |
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Third World Gays Important Presence at Anti-Apartheid MarchIs Lesbian Culture Only for Beginners?; Wake-Up, AIDS Hysteria Will Change Your Life; 1987 Queens Triumph at Waldorf-Astoria Bash; 1988 Women Need Not Apply: Institutional Discrimination in AIDS Drug Trials; Thousands May Die in the Streets: AIDS and the Homeless; The Left and Passionate Homosexuality: Presented at the Socialist Scholars' Conference; Children and AIDS: Debate Stirred over Placebo Tests; Taking Responsibility: Co-Dependence and the Myth of Recovery by Kay Hagen; 1990 AIDS and the Responsibility of the Writer |
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Outing: The Closet is Not a RightIs the NEA Good for Gay Art?; Eileen Myles; 1991 What Ideals Guide Our Actions?; Delusions of Gender; Whatever Happened to Lesbian Activism?; Why I Fear the Future; Laying the Blame: What Magic Johnson Really Means; Thelma, Louise, and the Movie Management of Rape; 1992 Fame, Shame, and Kaposi's Sarcoma: New Themes in Lesbian and Gay Film; Consumed by Neglect: Who is to Blame for the TB Epidemic?; The Denial of AIDS and the Construction of a Fake Life; Tokyo Rose; Coming to Terms: An Interview with Carole DeSanti; What Is the Role of Gay Film Festivals? |
| Summary |
"Sarah Schulman's writing is bold, provocative, and refreshingly unrepentant. First published in 1994, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan and Bush Years combines critical commentary with a rich and varied collection of news articles, letters, interviews, and reports in which the author traces the development of lesbian and gay politics in the U.S. In her coverage of many tireless campaigns of activism and resistance, Sarah Schulman documents a powerful political history that most people - gay or straight - never knew happened. In her Preface to this second edition, Urvashi Vaid argues for the continued relevance of Schulman's writing to activism in the 21st century, particularly in light of the resurgence of the right in American politics. Also included is a selection of articles by Sarah Schulman for Womanews, in their original print format, with illustrations by Alison Bechdel. The book closes with an interview with the author, conducted by Steven Thrasher, especially for this new edition. It explores AIDS and homophobia during the Reagan/Bush administrations and at the dawn of the Trump era. My American History is a collection that gives voice to both the personal and political struggles of feminist and lesbian and gay communities in the 1980s. It is an important historical record that will enlighten and inform activists, as well as academics of women's, gender and sexuality studies, in the 21st century."--Back cover |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Political aspects -- United States
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Lesbians -- Political activity -- United States
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Feminism -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Feminism
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Homosexuality -- Political aspects
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Lesbians -- Political activity
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Social policy
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social policy -- 1980-1993.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006373
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315121765 |
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131512176X |
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9781351349048 |
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135134904X |
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9781351349055 |
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1351349058 |
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9781351349031 |
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1351349031 |
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