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Tomboys and bachelor girls : a lesbian history of post-war Britain 1945-71
- Title
- Tomboys and bachelor girls : a lesbian history of post-war Britain 1945-71 / Rebecca Jennings.
- Author
- Jennings, Rebecca (Gender historian)
- Publication
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 209 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- 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 lesbian social scene in Britain.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Lesbians > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Lesbian culture > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Lesbianism > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Lesbians > Identity
- Lesbians > Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Lesbian culture
- Lesbianism
- Lesbians
- Lesbians > Social life and customs
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-204) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780719075445
- 0719075440
- 9780719089923
- 0719089921
- OCLC
- ocn148906603
- 148906603
- SCSB-14689119
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library