Sarah Schulman is the author of nine novels, four nonfiction books, and numerous plays. A recipient of a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, Schulman is a professor of English at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
A message that needs to be heard in all its complexity. People
should read this book.
Lambda Book Report
Ties That Bind is one of the most exciting gay liberation texts to
appear in years...this is a rewarding, wide-ranging, and
challenging work from an original mind and a talented pen, one that
will make you think and help you live.
Doug Ireland, Gay City News
Schulman boldly declares that visibility is a failed strategy for
cultural change.
Utne
[Schulman is] a writer who has played a pivotal role in the
cultural and political spheres of the gay community.
Curve
To call her book [Ties That Bind] pioneering would be redundant. .
. . With its personal appeals, its call to arms or rather, ethics
and its advice for therapists, family members, and gay people, I
continue to be struck by the book’s usefulness above all else. . .
.[I]t gives me hope that one day just as Schulman stipulates
homophobia could actually be a punishable crime, we could be
liberated from the systematic shame and humiliation that currently
defines our culture, and in that liberation necessarily granted the
rights that
we’ve lived without all this time.
Velvet Park
Schulman’s lucid dissection of the role that families play as
incubators of homophobia could hardly be better. This [is] a truly
indispensable book. It should blow away the hot air generated by
the public debate about family values.’
Andrew Ross, chair of the Department of Social and Cultural
Analysis at York University
Sarah Schulman Ties That Bind tackles the familial and cultural
homophobia that still pervade our society. She starkly lays out the
fundamental immorality of such shunning behavior and its
destructive consequences for everyone involved. This is an
important and original book.
Martin Duberman, award-winning historian, biographer, playwright,
and gay rights activist
Sarah Schulman is brilliant, vulnerable, and relentless. Ties That
Bindshould be required reading for every familygay and
straight.
Ellen Bass, poet and author of The Courage to Heal
A cri de coeur woven into a Utopian vision.
Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women, and
Rape
Sarah has taught me a great deal over the years of our being fellow
activists and this book teaches me even more.
Larry Kramer
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