Awfully Devoted Women

Kate Zieman:
Engaging and accessible without slacking on the analysis, this book is required reading for anybody with an interest in the history of lady-lovin’ ladies.

Leila J. Rupp, professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara:
Awfully Devoted Women tells the awfully interesting stories of two groups of Canadian women – upper-middle-class professionals from the first half of the twentieth century and lower-middle class women in the postwar period – who fill in the gaps between romantic friendship and the working-class bar culture. By showing us women who kept their desire and love for women private, yet could locate others like themselves, Duder helps to transform our understanding of the closet.