Description: Famous Lady Lovers : Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall, Hardcover by Woolner, Cookie, ISBN 1469675471, ISBN-13 9781469675473, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Black queer women have shaped American culture since long before the era of gay liberation. Decades prior to the Stonewall Uprising, in the 1920s and 1930s, Black 'lady lovers'-as women who loved women were then called-crafted a queer world. In the cabarets, rent parties, speakeasies, literary salons, and universities of the Jazz Age and Great Depression, communities of Black lady lovers grew, and queer flirtations flourished. Cookie Woolner here uncovers the intimate lives of performers, writers, and educators such as Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Gladys Bentley, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and Lucy Diggs Slowe, along with the many everyday women she encountered in the archives. Examining blues songs, Black newspapers, vice reports, memoirs, sexology case studies, and more, Woolner illuminates the unconventional lives Black lady lovers formed to suit their desires. In the urban North, as the Great Migration gave rise to increasingly racially mixed cities, Black lady lovers fashioned and participated in emergingsexual subcultures. During this time, Black queer women came to represent anxieties about the deterioration of the heteronormative family. Negotiating shifting notions of sexuality and respectability, Black lady lovers strategically established queer networks, built careers, created families, and were vital cultural contributors to the US interwar era"--
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Book Title: Famous Lady Lovers : Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewal
Number of Pages: 210 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Famous Lady Lovers : Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Sociology / General, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Author: Cookie Woolner
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Series: Gender and American Culture Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
