Spinsters and lesbians
Subtitle: independent womanhood in the United States
By: Trisha Franzen.
Series: The cutting edge; Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Lesbianism -- United States; Single women -- United States; Feminism -- United States; Women -- United States -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-224) and index.
Table of contents: title: Progressive era spinsters; title: Contemporary lesbians; title: Introduction : spinsters and lesbians; title: "What are you going to be?" : families and childhoods in the progressive era; title: "I knew I was odd" : growing up female; title: "O, the glorious privilege of being independent" : defining independent womanhood in the progressive era; title: "I was going to have to do it all on my own" : toward independent womanhood after World War II; title: "Such beautiful lives together" : community and companions among progressive era women; title: "We're not the only ones" : lesbian identities and communities after World War II; title: Spinsters and lesbians: resisting and surviving as independent women; title: Methodology.