Awfully Devoted Women - Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65

Informationen zum Autor Cameron Duder is an independent researcher based in Vancouver. His research interests include sexuality, transgender studies, and the history of mental health. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1: Awfully Devoted Odd Women1 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 War4 Growing Up under Heteronormativity5 Sexual Relationships in Postwar Canada: "We found our way to it easily enough"6 Making the Unspoken Plain: Sexual Practice7 Relationships: Lesbian Couples and Their Families8 Middle-Class Lesbian Community in the 1950s and 1960sConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Cameron Duder, Camerson Duder
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2011
• EAN: 9780774817394
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1739-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Studies Series; Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Stud
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories