A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution...

Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...