Bibliograph

Odd girls and twilight lovers, a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, Lillian Faderman

Type

Label

Odd girls and twilight lovers, a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, Lillian Faderman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Odd girls and twilight lovers

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

785572810

Responsibility statement

Lillian Faderman

Series statement

Between men--between women

Sub title

a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America

Summary

Lesbian life in America continues to evolve. As Lillian Faderman writes, there are?no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this book, Faderman reclaims the story of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to today's diverse lifestyles. Faderman samples from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and rich firsthand testimony with lesbians of all races, ages, and classes, uncovering a surprising

Table Of Contents

Introduction 1; 1. ""The Loves of Women for Each Other"": ""Romantic Friends"" in the Twentieth Century 11; 2. A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women 37; 3. Lesbian Chic: Experimentation and Repression in the 1920s 62; 4. Wastelands and Oases: The 1930s 93; 5. ""Naked Amazons and Queer Damozels"": World War II and Its Aftermath 118; 6. The Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name: McCarthyism and Its Legacy 139; 7. Butches, Femmes, and Kikis: Creating Lesbian Subcultures in the 1950s and '60s 1598. ""Not a Public Relations Movement"": Lesbian Revolutions in the 1960s through 1970s 1889. Lesbian Nation: Creating a Women-Identified-Women Community in the 1970s 215; 10. Lesbian Sex Wars in the 1980s 246; 11. From Tower of Babel to Community: Lesbian Life in the 1980s 271; Epilogue: Social Constructions and the Metamorphoses of Love Between Women 303; Notes; Index

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