Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold : The History of a Lesbian Community

, by Kennedy, Elizabeth (Author); Davis, Madeline (Author)

ISBN: 9780140235500 | 0140235507
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1994

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"Soars on the plain yet eloquent voices of the women...A necessary and overdue addition to the archives of lesbian and gay history."-- The Boston Globe. Chronicles working-class lesbians in Buffalo, New York from the 1930s through the 60s.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
"To cover up the truth would be a waste of time": Introduction	p. 1
"I could hardly wait to get back to that bar": Lesbian Bar Culture in the 1930s and 1940s	p. 29
"A weekend wasn't a weekend if there wasn't a fight": The Tough Bar Lesbians of the 1950s	p. 67
"Maybe 'cause things were harder...you had to be more friendly": Race and Class in the Lesbian Community of the 1950s	p. 113
"We're going to be legends, just like Columbus is": The Butch-Fem Image and the Lesbian Fight for Public Space	p. 151
"Now you get this spot right here": Butch-Fem Sexuality During the 1940s and 1950s	p. 191
"Nothing is forever": Serial Monogamy in the Lesbian Community of the 1940s and 1950s	p. 231
"It can't be a one-way street": Committed Butch-Fem Relationships	p. 278
"In everybody's life there has to be a gym teacher": The Formation of Lesbian Identities and the Reproduction of Butch-Fem Roles	p. 323
Conclusion	p. 372
Notes	p. 389
General Index	p. 425
Index of Narrators	p. 433
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold : The History of a Lesbian Community

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