| LC control no. | n 90695236 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3553.O64554 |
| Personal name heading | Córdova, Jeanne |
| Located | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1948-07-18 |
| Death date | 2016-01-10 |
| Place of birth | Bremerhaven (Germany) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Gay liberation movement Feminism Autobiographical fiction, American Publishers and publishing Journalism Monastic and religious life of women |
| Affiliation | Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Daughters of Bilitis |
| Profession or occupation | Lesbian activists Feminists Novelists Publishers and publishing Journalists Nuns |
| Found in | Her Kicking the habit, c1990: t.p. (Jeanne Córdova) p. 4 of cover (founded the Lesbian tide; publisher the New age telephone book and the Community yellow pages) Los Angeles times WWW site, viewed Jan. 19, 2016 (in obituary dated Jan. 15, 2016: Jeanne Córdova, an activist, author and publisher whose magazine, the Lesbian Tide, chronicled the lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, died Sunday [Jan. 10, 2016] at her home in Los Feliz [Los Angeles, Calif.]; she was 67; spent more than four decades fighting for lesbian visibility in both the feminist movement and the male-dominated gay-rights movement; born on July 18, 1948, in Bremerhaven, Germany; grew up in Southern California; joined the Immaculate Heart of Mary order of nuns in 1966; left the convent and earned a master's degree in social work from UCLA; recounted her convent experience in her 1990 book, "Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story" [second subtitle: An autobiographical novel]; gained prominence as an activist in 1970, when she became president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian civil and political-rights organization; Córdova's Daughters of Bilitis newsletter evolved into the independent Lesbian Tide newsmagazine in 1971; Córdova wrote and edited for the Los Angeles Free Press; In 1981, Córdova founded the Community Yellow Pages, a directory of gay- and lesbian-owned Southern California businesses; sold the Community Yellow Pages in 1999) |
| Associated language | spa |
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