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Tomboys and bachelor girls : A lesbian history of post-war Britain 1945-71 /

Using an array of oral histories and archival sources, this work provides an academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Challenging the conventional picture of the post-war decades as years of austerity and conservative femininity, this book traces the emergence of a vibrant...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Jennings, Rebecca (Gender historian)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Tomboys, crushes and the construction of adolescent lesbian identities
  • The 'all-out career woman' and narratives of lesbianism at work
  • Lesbian domesticity : relationships and the home
  • The Gateways club and the emergence of a post-war lesbian subculture
  • Arena three and the articulation of a collective lesbian identity.