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Description edit
Ever wondered why there’s no female voice as bold, erotic, unflinching, and revealing as Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, or Philip Roth? There is. It belongs to Susie Bright. In this stunning and courageous coming-of-age story, Susie Bright opens her heart and her life. From fearful Irish... read more
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Summary edit
I started to enjoy the book in the beginning but then i got bored with it. Its not a bad book but i had a hard time enjoy it.
People edit
- William Bright: Susie's father and influential linguistics pioneer
- Elizabeth Bright: Susie's mother, linguist, librarian, and Irish-Catholic renegade
- Catherine MacKinnon: Add a description of this character.
- Andrea Dworkin
- Barbara Grier
- Nan Kinney: co-founder On Our Backs
- Debi Sundahl: co-founder On Our Backs
- Honey Lee Cottrell: co-founder On Our Backs, legendary lesbian photographer, Susie's partner in 80s
- Michael Letwin: One of Red Tide founders
- George Putnam
- Patty Hearst
- Joani Blank: founder of Good Vibrations
- Steve Jobs
- Pat Califia
- John Preston: Drummer editor, "Mr Benson"
- Jim & Art Mitchell: Brothers, Mitchell Brothers theater, producers of Behind the Green Door
Organizations edit
- UCLA: Add a description of this organization.
- Roman Catholic Church
- University of California--Berkeley
- The Red Tide: the longest-running high school underground newspaper every published, from 1970-1980. Prevailed in California State Supreme Court to grant high school students First Amendment Rights and protections.
- International Socialists
- On Our Backs: The first and last all-women-created sex magazine, the first lesbian magazine of any kind. Susie Bright, co-founder.
- University High School, Los Angeles
- The Playboy Club
- Teamsters for a Democratic Union TDU
- The Teamsters
- Ku Klux Klan KKK
- Byck's Department Store
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Cal State Long Beach
- Good Vibrations
- The Lusty Lady Theater
- The Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater
- Drummer magazine
- Samois
First Sentence edit
"At the risk of making a dozen devoted enemies for life, I can only say that the whiffs I get from the ink o fwomen writers are fey, old-hat, Quaintsy Goysy, tiny, too dykily psychotic, crippled, creepish, fashionable, frigid, outer-Baroque, maquillé in mannequin's whimsy, or else bright and stillborn." -- Norman Mailer, "Advertisements for Myself."
Table of Contents edit
"First Bites"
Baby Teeth
India
The Irish Side
Way Out West
D I V O R C E
Runs Through It
Bleeding
The TIme Has Come, Walrus Said
"The Red Tide"
The Bunny Trip
The Churning Mist
Swim Banquet
George Putnam’s Show
Sex Education
You Are Now A Cadre
Patty Hearst
Dago Amour’s Apartment
The New Branch Organizer
Master Freight Agreement
Greyhound to Detroit Via Amarillo
The Aorta
Commie Camp
Relocation
The Perfume Counter
Expulsion
"All Along the GirlTower"
School Days
How I Got Introduced to On Our Backs
The Feminist Vibrator Store
Baby Showers
Models Crying
Les Belles Dames Sans Merci
The Daddies
Motherhood
Rotation
Aging Badly
When I Came Back from My Honeymoon
Santa Cruz
Acknowledgements
Notes
Photo Credits
Authors & Contributors edit
- Susie Bright (Author)
Awards edit
- Lambda Literary Award (Finalist, 2012: Bisexual Nonfiction, Shortlist)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 305.42092
Subjects edit
- Books › Gay & Lesbian › History
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Memoirs
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Sex
- Books › Parenting & Families › Family Relationships › Dysfunctional Relationships
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Death & Grief › Suicide
- Books › Health, Mind & Body › Psychology & Counseling
- Books › Gay & Lesbian › History
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Labor Unions
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Feminist Theory
- Books › Entertainment › Movies › Genre Films
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