From Publishers Weekly
Cammermeyer?a Vietnam veteran and Colonel in the U.S. Army who was discharged when she admitted to being a lesbian in 1989?details the reasons behind her decision to challenge the Armed Forces policy against homosexuals.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
For all the publicity surrounding its author, this book is unsensational. It is not stylishly written and, in places, it is painfully self-conscious and cliched. Nevertheless, Cammermeyer's personal strength and integrity manage to emerge. Cammermeyer has struggled for identity and place within the traditional male-dominant, heterosexual cultures of a 1950s Norwegian American family, conservative marriage, and dual careers in nursing and the military. She describes her girlhood as the daughter of immigrant parents; her successful career in military nursing, which included duty in Vietnam; her marriage and motherhood; and, finally, the admission of lesbianism that ended a distinguished military career and changed the direction of her life. This is a new kind of coming-of-age story-the emergence at midlife of a fully integrated woman able to turn outward from her own battles to become part of a larger movement for human rights. Appropriate for general readers interested in gay and lesbian studies.---Linda V. Carlisle, Southern Illinois Univ.
Edwardsville
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Edwardsville
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
