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Boots of leather, slippers of gold : the history of a lesbian community / Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Madeline D. Davis.
Van Pelt Library HQ75.6.U5 K47 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky, 1939-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbians--New York (State)--Buffalo--History--20th century.
- Lesbians.
- Lesbians--New York (State)--Buffalo--Social conditions.
- Working class--New York (State)--Buffalo--History--20th century.
- Working class.
- Women's studies--New York (State)--Buffalo.
- Women's studies.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Buffalo (N.Y.)--History--20th century.
- Buffalo (N.Y.).
- Lesbians--Social conditions.
- New York (State)--Buffalo.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, [1994]
- Summary:
- Traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community.
- Contents:
- 1. "To cover up the truth would be a waste of time": Introduction
- 2. "I could hardly wait to get back to that bar": lesbian bar culture in the 1930s and 1940s
- 3. "A weekend wasn't a weekend if there wasn't a fight": the tough bar lesbians of the 1950s
- 4. "Maybe 'cause things were harder...you had to be more friendly": race and class in the lesbian community of the 1950s
- 5. "We're going to be legends, just like Columbus is": the butch-fem image and the lesbian fight for public space
- 6. "Now you get this spot right here": butch-fem sexuality during the 1940s and 1950s
- 7. "Nothing is forever": serial monogamy in the lesbian community of the 1940s and 1950s
- 8. "It can't be a one-way street": committed butch-fem relationships
- 9. "In everybody's life there has to be a gym teacher": the formation of lesbian identities and the reproduction of butch-fem roles
- 10. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-424) and index.
- Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Studies, Winner, 1994
- ISBN:
- 0140235507
- 9780140235500
- OCLC:
- 30518515
- Online:
- Publisher description
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