Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community

Author:   Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy (University of Arizona, USA) ,  Madeline D. Davis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
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9781138785854


Pages:   478
Publication Date:   27 May 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy (University of Arizona, USA) ,  Madeline D. Davis
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.700kg
ISBN:  

9781138785854


ISBN 10:   1138785857
Pages:   478
Publication Date:   27 May 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition Acknowledgments Preface 1. ""To cover up the truth would be a waste of time"" : Introduction 2. ""I could hardly wait to get back to that bar"" : Lesbian Bar Culture in the 1930s and 1940s 3. "" A weekend wasn't a weekend if there wasn't a fight"": The Tough Bar Lesbians of the 1950s 4. ""Maybe 'cause things were harder...you had to be more friendly"" : Race and Class in teh Lesbian Community of the 1950s 5. ""We're going to be legends, just like Columbus is"": The Butch-Fem Image and the Lesbian Fight for Public Space 6. ""Now you get this spot right here"": Butch-Fem Sexuality during the 1940s and 1950s 7. ""Nothing is forever"" : Serial Monogamy in the Lesbian Community of the 1940s and 1950s 8. ""It can't be a one-way street"": Committed Butch-Fem Relationships 9. ""In everybody's life there has to be a gym teacher"": The Formation of Lesbian Identities and the Reproduction of Butch-Fem Roles 10. Conclusion Notes General Index Index of Narrators"

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I cherish Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold for teaching me about butch-femme cultures I never knew existed and inspiring me to practice oral history and ethnography as queer research method. An instant lesbian and queer classic when it was published, twenty years later it has become a vital document of the 1990s butch-femme revivals that gave rise to queer theory and new forms of gender. And it remains invaluable as a model for radical research practices that document local and ordinary lives. -Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures A bold, tender, and timely exploration of working class lesbians, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold is classic queer oral history that continues to inspire. Through the memories shared by butches and femmes from varied racial and ethnic backgrounds who lived and loved pre- and post-World War II, we learn lessons of individual courage and celebrate collective resistance. - Marcia M. Gallo, author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement


I cherish Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold for teaching me about butch-femme cultures I never knew existed and inspiring me to practice oral history and ethnography as queer research method.ã ã An instant lesbian and queer classic when it was published, twenty years later it has become a vital document of the 1990s butch-femme revivals that gave rise to queer theory and new forms of gender. And it remains invaluable as a model for radical research practices that document local and ordinary lives.ã -Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures A bold, tender, and timely exploration of working class lesbians, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold is classic queer oral history that continues to inspire. Through the memories shared by butches and femmes from varied racial and ethnic backgrounds who lived and loved pre- and post-World War II, we learn lessons of individual courage and celebrate collective resistance. - Marcia M. Gallo, author of Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement


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Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy is Professor Emeritus of Gender and of Women's Studies and English at the University of Arizona, and a pioneer in the field of lesbian history. Madeline D. Davis is a noted gay rights activist and the founder of the Madeline Davis Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Archives of Western New York.

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