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Home / Social and cultural anthropology / My Butch Career: A Memoir

My Butch Career: A Memoir

Esther Newton

Format: Hardback

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 16th Nov '18

£24.99

Esther Newton-a pioneer figure in gay and lesbian studies-tells the compelling and disarming story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her lesbian identity during one of the worst periods of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century.

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SKU: 9781478001294

Categories: Autobiography: general, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Social and cultural anthropology
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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 “normal,” 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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Weight 0.544 kg
Dimensions 152 × 229 mm
Page Count 288

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