Lillian Faderman

My Mother's Wars Lillian Faderman Scholar and women’s studies pioneer Lillian Faderman is the author of several groundbreaking narratives of the cultural, social, and political history of LGBT life and identity, including Surpassing the Love of Men, “one of the most significant contributions yet made to feminist literature” (The New York Review of Books); Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America. The recipient of six Lambda Literary Awards and two American Library Association Awards, she is also the author of the memoir Naked in the Promised Land. In My Mother’s Wars, she reflects on her mother’s guilt-stricken life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York. Parkway Central Library 1901 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway) TICKETS ON SALE JANUARY 4, 2013 at 10:00 AM. This is a TICKETED event; $15 General Admission, $7 Students. For more information, please call 215-567-4341, or click here

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