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The Resource A wild and precious life : a memoir, Edie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon
A wild and precious life : a memoir, Edie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon
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The item A wild and precious life : a memoir, Edie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item A wild and precious life : a memoir, Edie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sno-Isle Libraries.
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- Summary
- "A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon; she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades. In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen-Windsor in 2016. A Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBTQ activism"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (some color)
- Note
- Includes index
- Isbn
- 9781250195135
- Label
- A wild and precious life : a memoir
- Title
- A wild and precious life
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Edie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Biography
- Gay rights
- Gay rights -- United States -- History
- Gays
- Gays -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Lesbian activists
- Lesbian activists -- United States -- Biography
- Lesbians
- 1900-1999
- New York (State) -- New York
- United States
- Windsor, Edie
- Windsor, Edie
- Lesbians -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Edie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon; she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades. In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen-Windsor in 2016. A Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBTQ activism"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Windsor, Edie
- Dewey number
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- 306.76/63092
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ75.4.W57
- LC item number
- A3 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Lyon, Joshua
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Windsor, Edie
- Windsor, Edie
- Lesbian activists
- Lesbians
- Gay rights
- Gays
- Gay rights
- Gays
- Lesbian activists
- Lesbians
- New York (State)
- United States
- Label
- A wild and precious life : a memoir, Edie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (some color)
- Isbn
- 9781250195135
- Lccn
- 2019024260
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1110805870
- 1854509
- Label
- A wild and precious life : a memoir, Edie Windsor ; with Joshua Lyon
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xiii, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates (some color)
- Isbn
- 9781250195135
- Lccn
- 2019024260
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)1110805870
- 1854509
Subject
- Biographies
- Biography
- Gay rights
- Gay rights -- United States -- History
- Gays
- Gays -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- History
- Lesbian activists
- Lesbian activists -- United States -- Biography
- Lesbians
- 1900-1999
- New York (State) -- New York
- United States
- Windsor, Edie
- Windsor, Edie
- Lesbians -- United States -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
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