You Can't Buy Love Like That
eBook - ePub

You Can't Buy Love Like That

Growing Up Gay in the Sixties

  1. 222 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

You Can't Buy Love Like That

Growing Up Gay in the Sixties

About this book

A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the ’60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers. Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the ’60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men. The watershed point in Carol's journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses. But this sense of self-possession comes too late for honesty with her father. His unexpected death before she can tell him the truth brings the full cost of Carol's secret crashing in compelling her to come out to her mother before it is too late. Candid and poignant, You Can't Buy Love Like That reveals the complex invisible dynamics that arise for gay people who are forced to hide their true selves in order to survive and celebrates the hard-won rewards of finding one's courageous heart and achieving self-acceptance and self-love.

Information

Publisher
She Writes Press
Year
2017
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781631523151
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of contents
  6. prologue
  7. chapter 1 just as i am
  8. chapter 2 the diet
  9. chapter 3 first broken heart
  10. chapter 4 the blood drive
  11. chapter 5 over my head
  12. chapter 6 pain, pleasure and confrontation
  13. chapter 7 in the wilderness
  14. chapter 8 will you marry me?
  15. chapter 9 road trip
  16. chapter 10 crossroads
  17. chapter 11 women’s liberation
  18. chapter 12 white lilacs for the soul
  19. chapter 13 breakfast at big boys
  20. chapter 14 finding freedom
  21. chapter 15 who wants to be normal?
  22. chapter 16 belonging
  23. chapter 17 the struggle
  24. chapter 18 alone and free
  25. epilogue you can’t buy love like that
  26. acknowledgements
  27. about the author
  28. selected titles from she writes press

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