Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold
by Kennedy, Elizabeth (Author); Davis, Madeline (Author)Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-03-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Group USA
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Summary
"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.
Table of Contents
| 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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