Nestle, Joan (1940–)
Nestle, Joan (1940–)
American essayist and historian. Born May 12, 1940, in Bronx, NY.
Worked as activist for several causes in New York and co-founded Lesbian Herstory Archives of New York City to preserve Lesbian writing and artifacts; writings include A Restricted Country (1987) and The Fragile Union (1998); (with Naomi Holoch) edited Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction, vols 1 and 2 (1991, 1993), The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (1992), and (with John Preston) Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives (1995).
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