Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America
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Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1992, c1991
Available at 13 libraries
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First published in the United States fo America by Columbia University Press 1991
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-361) and index
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Description
Traces the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from the early years of the century to the diversity of today's lifestyles. Faderman uses journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, new accounts, novels, medical literature and over 186 personal interviews with lesbians of all races, ages and classes to uncover and relate this often surprising narrative of lesbian life in America. Lesbian identity could emerge, Faderman maintains, only during this century with the sexual freedom of the 1920s and the 1960s, as well as the social freedom made possible by World War II, the education of women and the civil rights and women's movements. The term "lesbian" did not become current until the late 19th century, when European sexologists began to explore female same-sex loving. Sexologists stigmatized same-sex loving where once it had been accepted. This book tells how women who accepted the label "lesbian" altered the sexologists' definitions, creating identities and ideologies for themselves.
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