I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir

Toni A. H. McNaron

Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2001 - Biography & Autobiography - 300 pages

In this moving autobiography, Toni McNaron bravely depicts her early encounters with racism in pre-civil rights Alabama alongside her personal struggle with sexual identity. This book is a powerful social document as well as a brave account of one woman's emotional, psychological, and intellectual self-actualization over five decades. "An engrossing read in the tradition of Audre Lorde's Zami and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings."—Susan Stanford Friedman, Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison

Marketing Plans for I Dwell in Possibility:
• Updates new edition of the ground-breaking 1992 memoir
• Radio interviews, author reading, and tour in the Midwest
• Extensive outreach to the gay and lesbian media

Toni McNaron teaches women's studies and English at the University of Minnesota and is the editor of The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century.

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I DWELL IN POSSIBILITY

User Review  - Jane Doe - Kirkus

The thoughtful autobiography of a white lesbian who grew up in Alabama, where she grappled with the complexities of the pre-civil- rights era and her own emerging sexuality. McNaron (Women's Studies ...

I dwell in possibility: a memoir

User Review  - Not Available - Book Verdict

As a lesbian coming into womanhood in the 1950s and starting her career in the 1960s, McNaron writes movingly about the years she spent closeted about her sexuality and unable to make real connections ...

Bibliographic information

• Title: I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir; Cross-cultural memoir series
• Author: Toni A. H. McNaron
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2001
• ISBN: 1558612807, 9781558612808
• Length: 300 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Educators; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Social Science / Lesbian Studies; Social Science / Women's Studies