Naked in the Promised Land A Memoir Author:Lillian Faderman 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 los... more »ing 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.« less
Interesting read.Makes you appreciate how far a woman can go nowadays compared to growing up Lillian Freadman's days.I couldn't always get into it as much as i would have liked it.The story line isn't always the strongest,over all pretty good.