Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers – A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth–Century America de Lillian Faderman

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers – A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth–Century America

Lillian Faderman

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2012

Faderman tells the compelling story of lesbian life in the 20th century, from the early 1900s to today's diverse lifestyles. Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life. 16 pages of photos. "Engaging . . . compelling . . . poignant and moving . . ".--The Los Angeles Times Book Review.

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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

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