Lillian Faderman

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Lillian Faderman is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, California State University, Fresno

Why Is Lillian Faderman Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Lillian Faderman is an American historian whose books on lesbian history and LGBT history have earned critical praise and awards. The New York Times named three of her books on its "Notable Books of the Year" list. In addition, The Guardian named her book, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, one of the Top 10 Books of Radical History. She was a professor of English at California State University, Fresno , which bestowed her emeritus status, and a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles . She retired from academe in 2007. Faderman has been referred to as "the mother of lesbian history" for her groundbreaking research and writings on lesbian culture, literature, and history.

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Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present (1981) (624)
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America@@@What a Lesbian Looks like: Writings by Lesbians on Their Lives and Lifestyles (1994) (437)
Surpassing the Love of Men (1981) (199)
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle (2015) (72)
I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience. (1998) (71)
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History (2000) (64)
The "new gay" lesbians. (1985) (63)
Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians (2006) (61)
The first sexual revolution : the emergence of male heterosexuality in Modern America (1994) (49)
Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists (1995) (48)
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present (1994) (37)
Sexuality and Power: A Review of Current Work in the History of Sexuality (1982) (29)
The morbidification of love between women by 19th-century sexologists. (1978) (24)
Scotch verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon (1983) (13)
The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece. John J. WinklerMaking Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Thomas LaqueurDisorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Janice M. Irvine (1992) (13)
I begin my life all over (1998) (12)
Female Same-Sex Relationships in Novels by Longfellow, Holmes, and James (1978) (11)
Who Hid Lesbian History (1979) (10)
Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century (1978) (10)
Love between women in 1928: why progressivism is not always progress. (1986) (6)
From the barrio;: A Chicano anthology (1973) (6)
Speaking for Ourselves: American Ethnic Writing (1975) (4)
A Checkered Career (2003) (3)
Lesbians in Germany : 1890's-1920's (1990) (3)
A Usable Past (2011) (3)
Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired "The Children's Hour" (1983) (2)
Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (2018) (2)
Naked in the Promised Land (2003) (1)
Workshop Four: Poem 754, “My life had stood — a loaded gun” (1989) (1)
Harvey Milk (2019) (1)
Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson (review) (2009) (1)
Acting "Woman" and Thinking "Man': The Ploys of Famous Female Inverts (1999) (1)
Revealing Secrets: Experiments in Academic Genres (2004) (0)
Part III. The Review and Appeal (2013) (0)
The Essentials of Lesbian Studies (1992) (0)
Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature. Meredith Miller (2008) (0)
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. Judith C. BrownLesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence. Rosemary Curb , Nancy Manahan (1987) (0)
Part I. The Accusation (2013) (0)
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality, 1880-1930.Sheila Jeffreys (1987) (0)
School for Scandal (1983) (0)
In No Man's Land (1999) (0)
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. By Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis. (New York: Routledge, 1993. xviii, 434 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-415-90293-2.) (1994) (0)
Comment on Joanne Feit Diehl's " 'Come Slowly: Eden': An Exploration of Women Poets and Their Muse" (1978) (0)
Speaking for ourselves (1969) (0)
Part II. The Trial (2013) (0)
Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. By Lucy Bland. (New York: New Press, 1995. xx, 410 pp. $25.00, ISBN 1-56584-307-X.) (1996) (0)
Heather MurrayNot in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America. (Politics and Culture in Modern America.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010. Pp. xvii, 289. $45.00 (2012) (0)
A response to Myriam Everard's "Lesbian History: a History of Change and Disparity". (1988) (0)
Woman (2022) (0)
Part IV. The Settlement (2013) (0)
Lady of the Moon (2015) (0)
Review of Isolation and Masquerade: Willa Cather's Women By Frances W. Kaye and Willa Cather By Sharon O'Brien (1995) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
Martin Meeker. Contacts Desired: Gay and Lesbian Communication and Community, 1940s-1970s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 321. Cloth $75.00, paper $25.00 (2007) (0)
The Review and Appeal (2013) (0)

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