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what lesbians have done for America--a history

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February 26, 2022 | History

To believe in women

what lesbians have done for America--a history

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A reappraisal of women who are known by history but whose histories are incomplete, To Believe in Women examines how their lesbianism may in fact have facilitated their accomplishments.

Lillian Faderman persuasively argues that even before a "lesbian identity" was defined, many female leaders had what would now be called lesbian relationships, free from the constraints of traditional heterosexual arrangements, which might have impeded their pursuits in education, politics, professional life, and culture.

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Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
434

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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - A History
2000, HarperCollins Publishers
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America - a History
2000, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
June 8, 2000, Mariner Books
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To Believe in Women : What Lesbians Have Done for America-A History
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America
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Table of Contents

I. How American women got enfranchised. The loves and living arrangements of nineteenth-century suffrage leaders
Bringing the suffrage movement into the twentieth century : Anna Howard Shaw
Victory : Carrie Chapman Catt
Two steps forward
II. How America got a social conscience. Mother-hearts/lesbian-hearts
Social housekeeping : the inspiration of Jane Addams
Social housekeeping becomes a profession : Frances Kellor
Poisoning the source. III. How American women got educated. "Mental hermaphrodites" : pioneers in women's education
Making women's higher education even higher : M. Carey Thomas
The struggle to maintain women's leadership : Mary Emma Woolley
The triumph of Angelina : education in femininity. IV. How American women got into the professions. "When more women enter professions" : lesbian pioneering in the learned professions
Making places for women in medicine : Emily Blackwell
Carrying on : Martha May Eliot, M.D.
The rush to bake the pies and have the babies.

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Boston

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.48/9664/0973, 306.7663
Library of Congress
HQ75.6.U5 F35 1999, HQ75.6.U5F35 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 434 p. :
Number of pages
434

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24222067M
Internet Archive
tobelieveinwomen00faderich
ISBN 10
039585010X
ISBN 13
9780395850107
LCCN
99026209
OCLC/WorldCat
41049726

Work Description

A groundbreaking women's history of America explores the roles of lesbian women in the battle to procure rights and privileges for Americans of both genders, arguing that these early female leaders had lesbian relationships free from the constraints of traditional ties that would have impeded their goals.

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