Tabella dei contenuti
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: Mc Carthyism 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
Circa l’autore
Lillian Faderman is professor emerita of English at California State University, Fresno, and author of the award-winningSurpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present and
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon. She is also the author of
Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir and
To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America—a History, and coauthor of
Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, And Lipstick Lesbians.