To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
by Lillian Faderman
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This landmark work of lesbian history focuses on how certain late-nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian were in the forefront of the battle to secure the rights and privileges that large numbers of Americans enjoy today. Lillian Faderman persuasively argues that their lesbianism may in fact have facilitated their accomplishments. A book of impeccable research and compelling readability, TO BELIEVE IN WOMEN will be a source of enlightenment for show more all, and for many a singular source of pride. show lessTags
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Lillian Faderman is an internationally revered scholar of lesbian and ethnic history and literature. She is the recipient of six Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association Awards, and several lifetime achievement awards for her scholarship. She is the author of Surpassing the Love of Men and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers, both New show more York Times Notable Books. show less
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- Epigraph
- I have forgotten everything I learned at Bryn Mawr,
but I still see you standing in chapel and telling
us to believe in women.
- from a letter to Bryn Mawr's president M. Carey Thomas, from an alu... (show all)mna - Dedication
- TO PHYLLIS - AGAIN
FOR EVERYTHING - AGAIN - First words
- This is a book about how millions of American women became what they now are: full citizens, educated, and capable of earning a decent living for themselves. It is also a book about how Americans developed a social conscience... (show all) and adapted the goals of various reform movements into law. But it departs from other such histories because it focuses on how certain late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women whose lives can be described as lesbian were in the forefront of the battle to procure the rights and privileges that large numbers of American women enjoy today. -Introduction
From its inception, women's fight for the vote was largely led by women who loved other women. It was a grueling battle. As Carrie Chapman Catt, the leading spokesperson at the time the Nineteenth Amendment was passed, summed... (show all) it up, success was won only after 56 state referendum campaigns, 480 legislative campaigns for state suffrage amendments, 47 state constitutional conventional campaigns, 277 state party conventions to get suffrage planks in the party platforms, and so forth and so on. - The Loves and Living Arrangements of Nineteenth-Century Suffrage Leaders - Canonical DDC/MDS
- 305.48
- Canonical LCC
- HQ75.U5
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- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, LGBTQ+, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 305.48 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Specific groups of women
- LCC
- HQ75 .U5 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sexual life Homosexuality. Lesbianism
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- English
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- 2
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