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Bettina Aptheker

Author of Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel

12+ Works 229 Members 1 Review

About the Author

Includes the names: bettina aptheker, Bettina F. Aptheker

Works by Bettina Aptheker

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel (2006) 81 copies

The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis (1975) 56 copies

Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience (1989) 40 copies

Woman's Legacy: Essays on Race, Sex, and Class in American History (1982) 28 copies

Communists in Closets (2022) 10 copies, 1 review

The Academic Rebellion in the United States (1972) 6 copies

Unfolding Drama: Studies in U.S. History (1979) 3 copies

Big Business and the American University 1 copy

Racism and Reaction in the United States: Two Marxian Studies (1971) 1 copy

Introduction to Feminism - Women's Studies 1 Fall 1989 Packet #44 1 copy

Columbia, Inc. 1 copy

Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s (2022) 1 copy

Associated Works

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (1971) — Preface — 551 copies, 1 review

A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi (1999) — Foreword — 117 copies, 2 reviews

The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (2002) — Contributor — 45 copies, 1 review

Highlights of a Fighting History: 60 Years of the Communist Party, USA (1979) — Contributor — 27 copies

In Resistance: Studies in African, Caribbean, and Afro-American History (1986) — Contributor — 14 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1944-09-13
Gender: female
Education: University of California, Berkeley (BA)
San Jose State University (MA)
University of California, Santa Cruz (History of Consciousness program |1980)
Occupations: activist (lesbian)
author
feminist
professor
Organizations: Berkeley Free Speech Movement (leader)
Relationships: Aptheker, Herbert (father)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Fort Bragg, North Carolina, USA
Places of residence: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Communists in Closets by Bettina Aptheker

Some of it was interesting but overall pretty boring.

Awards

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Lambda Literary Award

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel (Nominee – Lesbian Memoir/Biography – 2006)

UC Berkeley Summer Reading List

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel (2014)

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Statistics

Works: 12
Also by: 5
Members: 229
Popularity: #98,339
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 23
Languages: 1

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