Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town

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Duke University Press, Feb 20, 2015 - Social Science - 424 pages
First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.
 

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Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue
19361945
PART II
Conviviality and Camp
Trouble in Paradise
The Geometry of Gay Prejudice
Plays Parties and
9 Just One of the Boys
PART VI
19701980
Epilogue
Appendix on Methods
19601969
Narrators
Index

PART III
Copyright

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Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
Esther Newton
Snippet view - 1993
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
Esther Newton
No preview available - 1995
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
Esther Newton
No preview available - 2014

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About the author (2015)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleCherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town
AuthorEsther Newton
Editionillustrated
PublisherDuke University Press, 2015
ISBN0822377217, 9780822377214
Length424 pages
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History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
  
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