Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Awfully Devoted Odd Women
6. Relationships between Women 23
7. Lesbian Social Worlds, 1900–50 62
8. Physical Sexuality 74
9. Lesbian Lives after the Second World War
10. Growing Up under Heteronormativity 95
11. Sexual Relationships in Postwar Canada 124
12. Making the Unspoken Plain 152
13. Relationships 198
14. Middle-Class Lesbian Community in the 1950s and 1960s 225
15. Conclusion 262
16. Notes 265
17. Selected Bibliography 293
18. Index 309