She accomplishes it well with a combination of clarity and truthfulness about not only her strides, but also her judgments along the way. In an interview, Faderman admitted, “Behind the scholar’s eye and voice, I was always trying to situate myself.” This book is very much about situating. The book comes full circle to her rise in academia, becoming a well-known scholar and university professor responsible for several groundbreaking books, including Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers and Surpassing the Love of Men. But in her first memoir, Faderman tells her own life story beginning with her illegitimate birth in 1940 New York to her obsessive compulsion for becoming a Hollywood child star to help escape the wounds of the Holocaust, which eventually led to her work in the pornography industry. Anyone familiar with Lillian Faderman’s previous works will associate her with lesbian feminist scholastics, ethnic history and literature. She admits that her life has been unusual.
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