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My Red Blood

Posted by: John on: November 8, 2009

my red bloodDobkin, Alix.  My Red Blood:  A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement. 2009.  272p.  Alyson, $16.95.  (978-159350107-5).  Gr. 10-12.

The first artist to record an openly lesbian album (1973), this famous women’s music legend chronicles her 25-year struggle to acknowledge her feelings for other women and her determination to be a feminist.  A teenager during the McCarthy witch hunts, Dobkin grew up with surveillance on her family because of their political activities and stayed under the watchful eye of the FBI while she participated in the New York folk scene of the early 1960s, meeting such rising stars as Bob Dylan, Bill Crosby, Flip Wilson, and Buffy Ste. Marie.  As she says in the preface, this memoir covers her “pre-lesbian” life.  Perhaps she will write a sequel.

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