Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers
Subtitle: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
By: Lillian Faderman.
Series: Between men--between women
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Lesbianism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Lesbians -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-361) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: "The loves of women for each other" : "romantic friends" in the twentieth century
pagenum: 11; title: A worm in the bud : the early sexologists and love between women
pagenum: 37; title: Lesbian chic: experimentation and repression in the 1920s
pagenum: 62; title: Wastelands and oases: the 1930s
pagenum: 93; title: "Naked amazons and queer damozels" : World War II and its aftermath
pagenum: 118; title: The love that dares not speak its name : McCarthyism and its legacy
pagenum: 139; title: Butches, femmes, and kikis : creating lesbian subcultures in the 1950s and '60s
pagenum: 159; title: "Not a public relations movement" : lesbian revolutions in the 1960s through '70s
pagenum: 188; title: Lesbian Nation : creating a women-identified-women community in the 1970s
pagenum: 215; title: Lesbian sex wars in the 1980s
pagenum: 246; title: From tower of Babel to community: lesbian life in the 1980s
pagenum: 271; title: Epilogue: Social constructions and the metamorphoses of love between women
pagenum: 303