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Esther Newton

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Esther Newton is currently Term Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, and Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Kempner Distinguished Professor at Purchase College, SUNY. She is the author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas, published by Duke University Press, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America, coauthor of Womenfriends: A Soap Opera, and coeditor of Amazon Expedition: A Lesbian Feminist Anthology. ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 521 ratings · 73 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America 3.95 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 1972 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Butch Career: A Memoir 3.95 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cherry Grove Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town 4.01 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1993 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Series Q) 3.92 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Siege and Other Award Winning Stories 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Womenfriends: A Soap Opera by Esther Newton, Shelley Walton 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The "Fun Gay Ladies": Lesbians in Cherry Grove, 1936-1960 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newton(2014-12-03) by Esther Newton, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[ THE SIEGE AND OTHER AWARD WINNING STORIES ] Newton, Esther (AUTHOR ) Oct-23-2014 Paperback by Esther Newton, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When I kiss her I am kissing 1903.”
― Esther Newton, Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas

tags: admiration, century, love

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“. . . universities are not independent from our social order, but are paid and organized to perpetuate and legitimize it. Not all the ways in which we are implicated are obvious, though. Some are so subtly structural that trying to change them is like to crawl out of your own bones.”
― Esther Newton, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America

tags: order, society, university

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