Boots of leather, slippers of gold : the history of a lesbian community /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books,
[1994]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. "To cover up the truth would be a waste of time": Introduction
- 2. "I could hardly wait to get back to that bar": lesbian bar culture in the 1930s and 1940s
- 3. "A weekend wasn't a weekend if there wasn't a fight": the tough bar lesbians of the 1950s
- 4. "Maybe 'cause things were harder...you had to be more friendly": race and class in the lesbian community of the 1950s
- 5. "We're going to be legends, just like Columbus is": the butch-fem image and the lesbian fight for public space
- 6. "Now you get this spot right here": butch-fem sexuality during the 1940s and 1950s
- 7. "Nothing is forever": serial monogamy in the lesbian community of the 1940s and 1950s
- 8. "It can't be a one-way street": committed butch-fem relationships
- 9. "In everybody's life there has to be a gym teacher": the formation of lesbian identities and the reproduction of butch-fem roles
- 10. Conclusion.