num_pages: 368
description: The daughter of an unmarried immigrant Jewish garment worker whose family had perished in the Holocaust, Lillian Faderman dreamed of being an actress. Instead she worked her way through college by posing for nude photographs, and by stripping. She slowly discovered that her deepest erotic and emotional connections were to women. After nearly losing herself in a dangerous underworld of addicts, pimps, and prostitutes, she became a brilliant student, eventually earning a Ph.D. And she became a loving partner, a devoted mother, an influential writer, and a groundbreaking scholar of gay and lesbian studies.
language: English
title: Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir
genres: History, Queer, Feminism, Biography, Memoir, LGBT, Biography Memoir, Jewish, Lesbian, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 515
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Autobiography/Memoir, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press