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Spinsters and Lesbians : Independent Womanhood in the United States / Trisha Franzen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Cutting Edge ; 6Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780814726419
  • 9780814728925
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7663
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  • HQ75.6.U5
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Progressive Era Spinsters -- Contemporary Lesbians -- Introduction. Spinsters and Lesbians -- ONE. "What Are You Going to Be?" -- TWO. "I Knew I Was Odd" -- THREE. "O, the Glorious Privilege of Being Independent" -- FOUR. "I Was Going to Have to Do It All on My Own" -- FIVE. "Such Beautiful Lives Together" -- SIX. "We're Not the Only Ones" -- SEVEN. Spinsters and Lesbians -- On Methodology -- Appendix. Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Americans have long held fast to a rigid definition of womanhood, revolving around husband, home, and children. Women who rebelled against this definition and carved out independent lives for themselves have often been rendered invisible in U.S. history.In this unusual comparative study, Trisha Franzen brings to light the remarkable lives of two generations of autonomous women: Progressive Era spinsters and mid-twentieth century lesbians. While both groups of women followed similar paths to independence--separating from their families, pursuing education, finding work, and creating woman-centered communities--they faced different material and cultural challenge and came to claim very different identities. Many of the turn-of-the-century women were prominent during their time, from internationally recognized classicist Edith Hamilton through two early Directors of the Women's Bureau, Mary Anderson and Freida Miller. Maturing during the time of a broad and powerful women's movement, they were among that era's new women, the often-single women who were viewed as in the vanguard of women's struggle for equality. In contrast, never-married women after World War II, especially lesbians, were considered beyond the pale of real womanhood. Before the women's and gay/lesbian liberation movements, they had no positive contemporary images of alternative lives for women. Highlighting the similarities and differences between women-oriented women confronting changing gender and sexuality systems, Spinsters and Lesbians thus traces a continuum among women who constructed lives outside institutionalized heterosexuality.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Progressive Era Spinsters -- Contemporary Lesbians -- Introduction. Spinsters and Lesbians -- ONE. "What Are You Going to Be?" -- TWO. "I Knew I Was Odd" -- THREE. "O, the Glorious Privilege of Being Independent" -- FOUR. "I Was Going to Have to Do It All on My Own" -- FIVE. "Such Beautiful Lives Together" -- SIX. "We're Not the Only Ones" -- SEVEN. Spinsters and Lesbians -- On Methodology -- Appendix. Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Americans have long held fast to a rigid definition of womanhood, revolving around husband, home, and children. Women who rebelled against this definition and carved out independent lives for themselves have often been rendered invisible in U.S. history.In this unusual comparative study, Trisha Franzen brings to light the remarkable lives of two generations of autonomous women: Progressive Era spinsters and mid-twentieth century lesbians. While both groups of women followed similar paths to independence--separating from their families, pursuing education, finding work, and creating woman-centered communities--they faced different material and cultural challenge and came to claim very different identities. Many of the turn-of-the-century women were prominent during their time, from internationally recognized classicist Edith Hamilton through two early Directors of the Women's Bureau, Mary Anderson and Freida Miller. Maturing during the time of a broad and powerful women's movement, they were among that era's new women, the often-single women who were viewed as in the vanguard of women's struggle for equality. In contrast, never-married women after World War II, especially lesbians, were considered beyond the pale of real womanhood. Before the women's and gay/lesbian liberation movements, they had no positive contemporary images of alternative lives for women. Highlighting the similarities and differences between women-oriented women confronting changing gender and sexuality systems, Spinsters and Lesbians thus traces a continuum among women who constructed lives outside institutionalized heterosexuality.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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