Lillian Faderman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (eBook, ePUB)

A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and oral histories by lesbians of all ages and backgrounds, uncovering a narrative of uncommon depth and originality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231530743
• Artikelnr.: 38174950

Autorenporträt

Lillian Faderman

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1. "The Loves of Women for Each Other": "Romantic Friends" in the Twentieth
Century
2. A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women
3. Lesbian Chic: Experimentation and Repression in the 1920s
4. Wastelands and Oases: The 1930s
5. "Naked Amazons and Queer Damozels": World War II and Its Aftermath
6. The Love that Dares Not Speak Its Name: McCarthyism and Its Legacy
7. Butches, Femmes, and Kikis: Creating Lesbian Subcultures in the 1950s
and '60s
8. "Not a Public Relations Movement": Lesbian Revolutions in the 1960s
Through '70s
9. Lesbian Nation: Creating a Women-Identified-Women Community in the 1970s
10. Lesbian Sex Wars in the 1980s
11. From Tower of Babel to Community: Lesbian Life in the 1980s
Epilogue: Social Constructions and the Metamorphoses of Love Between Women
Notes
Index