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Spinsters and lesbians : independent womanhood in the United States
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- Creator
- Trisha Franzen
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : New York University Press, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- xxvii, 229 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 0814726429, 9780585331416, 9780814726419, 9780814726426, 9780814728925, 0814726410, 0585331413, 0814728928
- OCLC
- ocm32854450, ocm45843998
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-224) and index.
- Progressive era spinsters -- Contemporary lesbians -- Introduction : spinsters and lesbians -- "What are you going to be?" : families and childhoods in the progressive era -- "I knew I was odd" : growing up female -- "O, the glorious privilege of being independent" : defining independent womanhood in the progressive era -- "I was going to have to do it all on my own" : toward independent womanhood after World War II -- "Such beautiful lives together" : community and companions among progressive era women -- "We're not the only ones" : lesbian identities and communities after World War II -- Spinsters and lesbians: resisting and surviving as independent women -- Methodology