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Spinsters and lesbians : independent womanhood in the United States / Trisha Franzen.
LIBRA HQ75.6.U5 F73 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franzen, Trisha, 1951-
- Series:
- Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
- The cutting edge
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbianism--United States.
- Lesbianism.
- Single women.
- United States.
- Single women--United States.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- Women--United States--Biography.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 229 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [1996]
- Contents:
- Progressive era spinsters
- Contemporary lesbians
- Introduction : spinsters and lesbians
- "What are you going to be?" : families and childhoods in the progressive era
- "I knew I was odd" : growing up female
- "O, the glorious privilege of being independent" : defining independent womanhood in the progressive era
- "I was going to have to do it all on my own" : toward independent womanhood after World War II
- "Such beautiful lives together" : community and companions among progressive era women
- "We're not the only ones" : lesbian identities and communities after World War II
- Spinsters and lesbians: resisting and surviving as independent women
- Methodology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0814726410
- 0814726429
- OCLC:
- 32854450
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