![]() ![]() ![]() Told with wrenching immediacy and great power, Naked in the Promised Land is the story of an exceptional woman and her remarkable, unorthodox life. ![]() At last she became a brilliant student and the woman who becomes a loving partner, a devoted mother, an acclaimed writer and ground-breaking pioneer of gay and lesbian scholarship. When her dreams led to the dangerous, seductive world of the sex trade and sham-marriages in Hollywood of the fifties, she realised she was attracted to women, and that show-biz is as cruel as they say.ĭesperately seeking to make her life meaningful, she studied at Berkeley paying her way by working as a pin-up model and burlesque dancer, hiding her lesbian affairs from the outside world. Lillian grew up in poverty, but fantasised about becoming an actress. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of. This modern classic of LGBT writing includes an introduction from Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties, and a new afterword from Lillian Faderman.īorn in 1940, Lillian Faderman is the only child of an uneducated and unmarried Jewish woman who left Latvia to seek a better life in America. Table of contents for Naked in the promised land / Lillian Faderman. ![]()
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