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Intimate politics : how I grew up Red, fought for free speech, and became a feminist rebel / Bettina F. Aptheker.
- Title
- Intimate politics : how I grew up Red, fought for free speech, and became a feminist rebel / Bettina F. Aptheker.
- Author
- Aptheker, Bettina
- Publication
- Emeryville, CA : Seal Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, ©2006.
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6570.7 .A67 2006 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 549 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "At eight years old, Bettina F. Aptheker watched her family's politics play out in living rooms across the country when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in the McCarthy Hearings in 1953. Born into one of the most influential Communist families in America, whose friends included W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bettina Aptheker witnessed firsthand one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also lived with terrible secrets: childhood sexual abuse and a frightening and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions."
- "A gripping and beautifully rendered memoir, Intimate Politics is, at its core, the story of one woman's struggle to still the demons of her personal world, to break the silence of family secrets, and to speak her truth, no matter what the cost."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- LGBT thought and culture.
- Subject
- Aptheker, Bettina
- Incest victims > United States > Biography
- Political activists > United States > Biography
- Feminists > United States > Biography
- Victimes d'inceste > États-Unis > Biographies
- Activistes > États-Unis > Biographies
- Féministes > États-Unis > Biographies
- Feminists
- Incest victims
- Political activists
- Frauenbewegung
- Politische Beteiligung
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: Bearing witness -- Introduction: Beginnings --A childhood in two worlds -- Upheavals in Berkeley -- A wedding, a trial, and a war -- Communist life and the movement to free Angela Davis -- Coming out and coming home -- An opening of the heart -- Endings -- Epilogue: Looking forward.
- ISBN
- 158005160X
- 9781580051606
- LCCN
- 2006012047
- 9781580051606
- OCLC
- 67773644
- SCSB-10822651
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library