Sex Variant Woman
The Life of Jeannette Howard Foster
Passet, Joanne
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BOOK SUMMARY
A stunning biography of the long-neglected, firebrand author of the bible of lesbian literature, Jeannette Howard Foster
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Jeannette Howard Foster was to lesbianism in the mid-twentieth century what out authors such as Gore Vidal and James Baldwin were to gay men. She unapologetically blew the lid off Cold War sexual repression in 1956 with her Sex Variant Women in Literature-the first-ever study of homosexual, bisexual, and cross-dressing characters appearing in more than 300 works, from ancient times to the present. Joanne Passets Sex Variant Woman is a fascinating portrait of Foster, who served as the first librarian at the Kinsey Institute before leaving to publish her controversial book. It is also a riveting look into the pre-Stonewall past, the intense sexual repression and persecution endured by homosexuals, the groundbreaking advances put forth by a cadre of activists, and the rise of feminism and gay and lesbian liberation decades later.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0786718226
ISBN(13-digit): 9780786718221
Dewey Decimal: 306.76/63092
Library of Congress: 2008014603
Book Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 353
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