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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faderman, Lillian.

Series:

Between men - between women: lesbian, gay and bisexual studies.

Between men - between women: lesbian, gay and bisexual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbianism--United States--History.

Lesbianism.

Lesbians--United States--History.

Lesbians.

Lesbianism--United States--History--20th century.

Lesbians--United States--History--20th century.

Local Subjects:

Lesbianism--United States--History--20th century.

Lesbians--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 1991.

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 Faderman samples from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and rich firsthand testimony with lesbians of all races, ages, and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

Contents:

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 159

8. ""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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613642653

9781280665721

1280665726

9780231530743

0231530749

OCLC:

818856753