Making Girls Into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity
(Part of the Series Q Series)
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Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Kent demonstrates how, as white women's culture shifted more and more from the home to the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822330164
ISBN13:9780822330165
Release Date:January 2003
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.6"
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