| Description |
xi, 272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Metamorphosis: 1962 -- The Mandarins: 1962 -- A Room of One's Own: 1962 -- Miss Lonelyhearts: 1958 -- The Souls of Black Folk: i960 -- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter: 1962 -- Cinderella: 1962 -- The Fire Next Time: 1963 -- Wretched of the Earth: 1964 -- The Prime of Life: 1964 -- Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 1965 -- Things Fall Apart: 1966 -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X: 1966 -- Look Out, Whitey! 1968 -- The Second Sex: 1968 -- The SCUM Manifesto: 1968 -- Revolutionary Notes: 1969 -- Sisterhood Is Powerful: 1970 -- They Shall Not Pass: 1971 -- Power: 1973 -- Diving into the Wreck: 1977 -- The Women's Room: 1978 -- Silences: 1979 -- This Bridge Called My Back: 1980 -- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence: 1981 -- Harlem: 1982 -- The Color Purple: 1987 -- She's Got Her Ticket: 1990 -- Their Eyes Were Watching God: 1991 -- Half of a Yellow Sun: 1993 -- The Future of White Men: 1994. |
| Summary |
"Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms with her own racism. She fell in love and married a fellow activist, the Black writer Julius Lester, establishing a partnership that was long and multifaceted but not free of the politics of race and gender. As the women's movement dawned, feminism helped Lester find her voice, her pansexuality, and the courage to be herself. Braiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia. She describes her own shifts in consciousness, from an activist climbing police barricades by day and reading and writing late into the night to a woman navigating the coming-out process in midlife, before finding the publishing success she had dreamed of. Speaking candidly about every facet of her life, Lester illuminates her journey to fulfillment and healing"--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Lester, Joan Steinau, 1940-
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Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Interracial marriage -- United States.
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Interracial marriage. (OCoLC)fst00977484
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Women authors, American. (OCoLC)fst01177210
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9780299331009 (hardcover) |
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0299331008 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
40030620335 |
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