![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Embedded in tales of lesbian desire are Nestle’s concerns with the power of class and race in America to exile bodies.įrom Nestle’s earliest popular essays such as “Lesbians and Prostitutes: An Historical Sisterhood” to more recent powerfully evocative pieces like “I Lift My Eyes to the Hill” in which Nestle, a white lesbian, traces the life of her friend, African-American lesbian Mabel Hampton, A Sturdy Yes of a People gathers both her most enduring insights and new provocations for readers and fans to treasure or discover. A STURDY YES OF A PEOPLE gathers Nestles most influential writing into a single volume presenting her persistent involvement in liberation movements, LGBTQ histories, erotic writing, and archives that document gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer lives. Extraordinary collection of new and beloved work by writer, thinker, and theorist Joan Nestle.įor over fifty years, Joan Nestle has been chronicling lesbian and queer life boldly with guts, heart, and moral suasion. ![]()
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