Lillian Faderman

A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities. Harvey Milk—eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck—was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a...

A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century “Exhaustively researched and finely written.”—Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times “An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience. . . . This highly readable, inclusive, and deeply researched book will appeal to scholars of women and gender studies as well as anyone seeking to understand...