Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth century America

Faderman, Lillian

How did love between women move from romantic friendship and hidden lives to bars, movements and open communities in twentieth century America?

At a glance

You will see how women's close bonds around the turn of the century were shielded by romantic friendship and ladylike appearance
You will understand how new medical explanations turned a bond that was socially sanctioned into something called abnormal
You will notice why safe places mattered so much to a group that had no ghettos in which to meet