Rebecca Jennings

Tomboys and bachelor girls (eBook, PDF)

A lesbian history of post-war Britain 1945-71

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Described by psychiatrists as immature and neurotic and widely ignored as taboo by mainstream society, lesbians nevertheless recognised and accepted their same-sex desire and sought out women like themselves.

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, centred on the metropolitan nightclubs of post-war London, but also developing across the country, through lesbian magazines and social organisations.

This fascinating book brings to life the rich history of post-war lesbian culture for the scholarly and general reader alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526130280
• Artikelnr.: 54362680

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Jennings is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Tomboys, crushes and the construction of adolescent lesbian
identities 2. The 'all-out career woman' and narratives of lesbianism at
work 3. Lesbian domesticity: Relationships and the home 4. The Gateways
Club and the emergence of a post-war lesbian subculture 5. 'Arena three'
and the articulation of a collective lesbian identity Conclusion Index