title: Karla jay.
abstract: SUMMARY Karla Jay discusses Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation (published in 1999). She engages the connections between the personal and the political in her memoir. The reception by readers, family relations, the history of the feminist movement, racism, and homophobia are also deliberated in relation to the writing "process" and the motivations to write.
authors.affiliation: a Pace University , New York City , USA.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jay
keywords: Lesbians; family; memoir; mental illness; reader responses; sixties radicalism