An edition of To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America-A History
(1999)
To believe in women
what lesbians have done for America--a history
by Lillian Faderman
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A groundbreaking women's history of America explores the roles of lesbian women in the battle to procure rights and privileges for Americans of both genders, arguing that these early female leaders had lesbian relationships free from the constraints of traditional ties that would have impeded their goals.
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Lesbian feminism, Lesbians, History, Lesbiennes, Histoire, Historia, Lesbianas, Féminisme et lesbianisme, Suffrage, Gainful employment, Utbildning, Geschichte, Politik, Feminism, Gesellschaft, Education, Lesbiska kvinnor, Kvinnorörelsen, Förvärvsarbete, Rösträtt, Lesbe, Medborgerliga fri- och rättigheter, Women's movement, Civil rights, Lesbianism, LGBTQ history, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, collection:judy_grahn_award=finalist, Gays, history, Women, united states, historyPlaces
United States, États-Unis, Estados UnidosShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History
June 8, 2000, Mariner Books
in English
0618056971 9780618056972
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To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America
June 1999, Houghton Mifflin (T)
Hardcover
039558101X 9780395581018
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To believe in women: what lesbians have done for America--a history
1999, Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover
in English
039585010X 9780395850107
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To Believe in Women : What Lesbians Have Done for America-A History
June 15, 1999, Houghton Mifflin
in English
039585010X 9780395850107
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Table of Contents
I. How American women got enfranchised. The loves and living arrangements of nineteenth-century suffrage leaders
Bringing the suffrage movement into the twentieth century : Anna Howard Shaw
Victory : Carrie Chapman Catt
Two steps forward
II. How America got a social conscience. Mother-hearts/lesbian-hearts
Social housekeeping : the inspiration of Jane Addams
Social housekeeping becomes a profession : Frances Kellor
Poisoning the source. III. How American women got educated. "Mental hermaphrodites" : pioneers in women's education
Making women's higher education even higher : M. Carey Thomas
The struggle to maintain women's leadership : Mary Emma Woolley
The triumph of Angelina : education in femininity. IV. How American women got into the professions. "When more women enter professions" : lesbian pioneering in the learned professions
Making places for women in medicine : Emily Blackwell
Carrying on : Martha May Eliot, M.D.
The rush to bake the pies and have the babies.
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