A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century By Jane Vandenburgh
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Name: A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century By Jane Vandenburgh
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Title: A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century
Author: Jane Vandenburgh
Language: English
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 9781582434599
Total pages: 888 str.
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Born into "a certain kind of family"-affluent, white, Protestant-Jane Vandenburgh came of age when the sexual revolution was sweeping the cultural landscape, making its mark in a way that would change our manners and mores forever. But what began as an all-American life soon spun off and went spectacularly awry.
Her father, an architect with a prominent Los Angeles firm, was arrested several times for being in gay bars during the 1950s, and only freed when her grandfather paid bribes to the L.A.P.D. He was ultimately placed in a psychiatric hospital to be "cured" of his homosexuality, and committed suicide when she was nine. Her mother-an artist and freethinker-lost custody of her children when she was committed to a mental hospital. The author and her two brothers were raised by an aunt and uncle who had, under one roof, seven children and problems of their own.
In the midst of private trauma and loss, Vandenburgh delights in revealing…
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