Description: 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 Using journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, news accounts, novels, medical literature, and numerous interviews, she relates an often surprising narrative of lesbian life. 16 pages of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. 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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Book Title: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbia
Number of Pages: 373 Pages
Publication Name: Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers : a History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Lgbt, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Lillian Faderman
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
