Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (eBook)

Lillian Faderman is professor emerita of English at California State University, Fresno, and author of the award-winning Surpassing 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.

ContentsIntroduction1. "The Loves of Women for Each Other": "Romantic Friends" in the Twentieth Century2. A Worm in the Bud: The Early Sexologists and Love Between Women3. Lesbian Chic: Experimentation and Repression in the 1920s4. Wastelands and Oases: The 1930s5. "Naked Amazons and Queer Damozels": World War II and Its Aftermath6. The Love that Dares Not Speak Its Name: McCarthyism and Its Legacy7. Butches, Femmes, and Kikis: Creating Lesbian Subcultures in the 1950s and '60s8. "Not a Public Relations Movement": Lesbian Revolutions in the 1960s Through '70s9. Lesbian Nation: Creating a Women-Identified-Women Community in the 1970s10. Lesbian Sex Wars in the 1980s11. From Tower of Babel to Community: Lesbian Life in the 1980sEpilogue: Social Constructions and the Metamorphoses of Love Between WomenNotesIndex