Lillian Faderman

Lillian Faderman (born in the Bronx, with New York, in 1940) is an American Historien specialized in the studies gay and lesbians.

Biography

Of Jewish family, its mother and her aunt leave the Latvia in 1923 for New York. Lillian grows with Los Angeles near his/her mother, single person and isolated after the assassination from its family during the Second world war. She studies with the the University of California and obtains her license with Berkeley in 1962, then supports her thesis in 1975 with Los Angeles.

She starts to affirm herself as lesbian whereas discretion and the false marriages between gays and lesbians prevail. She publishes in 1980 a study of the Féminisme lesbian in Germany, and Michel Foucault the meeting whereas she continues her research on the history of female homosexuality in Europe and in the United States. She is interested then in the friendships impassioned between women, who without being sexual évincent any male presence. Its book Surpassing the Love off Men is presented in the form of a history of the lesbians through a broad definition, more sentimental than sexual, lesbianism, near to the " continuum lesbien" proposed by Adrienne Rich at the same time.

Shown to have a desexualized vision of the lesbians and to have occulted the Butch-fem, it continues its research while concentrating over the 20th century, and particularly on the implication of the lesbians in the feminist fights ( Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers , To Believe in Women ). Pionnière of studies LGBT, it contributed to the creation of departments of female studies and gay studies. However, unlike George Chauncey, none of its books is translated into French. She lives since 1971 with the same woman and sign the English Littérature at the University of California with Fresno.

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