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Invisible lives : the truth about millions of women-loving women / Martha Barron Barrett.
LIBRA HQ75.6.U5 B37 1990
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrett, Martha Barron, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbians--United States.
- Lesbians.
- Lesbian nation.
- Lesbian relationships.
- Lesbian partners.
- Women who have sex with women.
- Sexuality.
- Sex (Act).
- Gender.
- Gender diversity.
- Gender binaries.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 349 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Perennial Library edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Library, 1990.
- Summary:
- "Draws from more than 120 candid interviews with diverse women ... The result is a revealing look at what it is like to be a lesbian in America today"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- I. Who are they?
- 1. You're looking me in the face
- 2. Living two lives
- 3. Who cares what old maids do?
- 4. Without marbles in my mouth
- II. The secret
- 5. My closet has a revolving door
- 6. Beginnings: Liz, Spyke, Julie, Jackie
- 7. Private or secret?
- III. Out in the open
- 8. A weekend in San Francisco
- 9. Never in my wildest imagination
- 10. How dare you!
- IV. Youth
- 11. Boys and girls are supposed to be together
- 12. There aren't any gay or lesbian kids
- 13. Respected and hated: choices on campus
- 14. Jocks and dykes
- V. Difficult lives
- 15. Some safe place
- 16. Coping with religion
- VI. Different perspectives
- 17. Magnolia trees in every yard
- 18 Oklahoma
- 19 New York City
- VII. In the life
- 20. Music, books, and the media
- 91. Just for fun
- VIII. Women together
- 22. Sherry and Nancy, a couple
- 23. Atlanta partners
- 24. With three children
- IX. Past forty-five
- 25. Solitary woman
- 26. Freedom with age
- 27. We were out there
- X. Sexuality
- 28. Between two women
- 29. Sex is worlds of things
- XI Variations on a theme
- 30. Labels fall short
- 31. Being gay is minor
- XII. Working for change
- 32. Feminist lesbians
- 33. A passion for justice
- Xiii. The way it is
- 34. Intensive care
- 35. Somebody's lying.
- Who are they?
- The secret
- Out in the open
- Youth
- Difficult lives
- Different perspectives
- In the life
- Women together
- Past forty-five
- Sexuality
- Variations on a theme
- Working for change
- The way it is.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Morrow, 1989.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0060973315
- 9780060973315
- OCLC:
- 21596220
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