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Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a

Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel Softcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by Bettina F. Aptheker

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Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist families, Aptheker lived her parents' politics witnessing first-hand one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also lived with a terrible secret: incest at the hands of her famous father and a frightening and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions.

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Emeryville CA: Seal Press, 2006. 1st pbk. Softcover. Softcover, 549 pages, b&w illustrations. Set amidst the political upheaval of the McCarthy trials, the Vietnam War, and the rise of the women's movement, Intimate Politics is a courageous and uncompromising account of one woman's personal and political transformation, and a fascinating portrayal of a key chapter in our nation's history. At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family's politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian and U.S. Communist Party leader Herbert Aptheker, testified on television in front of the House on Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. Born into one of the most influential U.S. Communist families whose friends included W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Bettina lived her parents' politics witnessing first-hand one of the most dramatic upheavals in American history. She also lived with a terrible secret: incest at the hands of her famous father and a frightening and lonely life lived inside a home wrought with family tensions. Light marking to ten pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy. Record # 384279
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  • Title Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel
  • Author Bettina F. Aptheker
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1st pbk
  • Pages 375
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seal Press, Emeryville CA
  • Date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 384279
  • ISBN 9781580051606 / 158005160X
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.56 x 1.1 in (20.88 x 14.12 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress subjects Feminists - United States, Incest victims - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006012047
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Publishers Weekly, 08/21/2006, Page 58

About the author

Bettina F. Aptheker is professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she has taught one of the country's largest and most influential introduction to feminist studies courses for twenty-four years. She lives in Santa Cruz, CA, with her longtime partner, Kate Miller.

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