Wild mares : my lesbian back-to-the-land life
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Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018].
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9781517902667, 1517902665
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xi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Published
Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018].
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English
ISBN
9781517902667, 1517902665

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238).
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"Dianna Hunter was a softball-loving, working-class tomboy in North Dakota, surviving the threat of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mutually Assured Destruction in the shadow of a strategic air command base. Communists and antiwar hippies were the enemy, but lesbians were a threat, too: they were unhealthy, criminal, and downright insane. It took Dianna a while to figure out that she was one, a little longer to discover how she fit in with her new communities in the city and the countryside. This is her story; a frank account by turns comic and painful of a well-behaved Midwestern girl finding her way through polite denial and repression and running head-on into the eye-opening events of the 1960s and 70s before landing on a dairy farm. A bumpy route takes Dianna to the Twin Cities, then to rural Minnesota and Wisconsin as; by way of the antiwar movement, women's liberation, and a dose of lesbian feminism; she and her friends try to establish a rural utopia free of sexual oppression, violence, materialism, environmental degradation; and men. They dream big, love as they see fit, and make do until they don't. Dianna buys a dairy farm and, with it, a new set of problems thanks to the Reagan-era farm crisis. A firsthand account of the lesbian feminist movement at its inception, Wild Mares is a deeply personal, wryly wise, and always engaging view of identity politics lived and learned in real life and, literally, on the ground, flourishing in the fertile soil of a struggling dairy farm in the American heartland."--Publisher description.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Hunter, D. (2018). Wild mares: my lesbian back-to-the-land life . University of Minnesota Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hunter, Dianna, 1949-. 2018. Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-land Life. University of Minnesota Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Hunter, Dianna, 1949-. Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-land Life University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Hunter, Dianna. Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-land Life University of Minnesota Press, 2018.

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