Cameron Duder

Awfully Devoted Women

Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65

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Produktbeschreibung

This intimate study of the lives of middle-class lesbians who came of age before the gay rights movement unveils a previously unknown world of private relationships, discreet social networks, and love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780774817394
• ISBN-10: 0774817399
• Artikelnr.: 32739724

Autorenporträt

Cameron Duder

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Awfully Devoted Odd Women
1 Relationships Between Women: The "knitting together of mind and spirit"
2 Lesbian Social Worlds, 1900-50: "So there seems to be a fair amount of it
about"
3 Physical Sexuality: "How did you get here Miss Brown?"
Part 2: Lesbian Lives after the Second World War
4 Growing Up under Heteronormativity
5 Sexual Relationships in Postwar Canada: "We found our way to it easily
enough"
6 Making the Unspoken Plain: Sexual Practice
7 Relationships: Lesbian Couples and Their Families
8 Middle-Class Lesbian Community in the 1950s and 1960s
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index