Awfully Devoted Women
Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Awfully Devoted Women
Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Awfully Devoted Odd Women
1 Relationships Between Women: The “knitting together of mind and spirit”
2 Lesbian Social Worlds, 1900-50: “So there seems to be a fair amount of it about”
3 Physical Sexuality: “How did you get here Miss Brown?”
Part 2: Lesbian Lives after the Second World War
4 Growing Up under Heteronormativity
5 Sexual Relationships in Postwar Canada: “We found our way to it easily enough”
6 Making the Unspoken Plain: Sexual Practice
7 Relationships: Lesbian Couples and Their Families
8 Middle-Class Lesbian Community in the 1950s and 1960s
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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