Description: The Famous Lady Lovers by Cookie Woolner Examining blues songs, Black newspapers, vice reports, memoirs, sexology case studies, and more, Cookie Woolner illuminates the unconventional lives Black lady lovers formed to suit their desires. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 emerging sexual 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. Author Biography Cookie Woolner is associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. Review Extraordinary in its scope and inventiveness to focus on their intimate lives . . . . Woolners beautiful prose and writing style makes this book a delight to read. Academics and general readers alike will be drawn to it."—Starred review, Library Journal Impeccably researched and compellingly written examination of Black women who loved women during the 1920s and 1930s."—Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine Details ISBN146967548X Author Cookie Woolner Publisher The University of North Carolina Press Series Gender and American Culture Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781469675480 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-09-12 Imprint The University of North Carolina Press Subtitle Black Women and Queer Desire before Stonewall Place of Publication Chapel Hill Country of Publication United States Illustrations 4 halftones AU Release Date 2023-09-12 NZ Release Date 2023-09-12 US Release Date 2023-09-12 UK Release Date 2023-09-12 ISBN-10 146967548X Audience Professional & Vocational DEWEY 306.766308996073 Pages 210 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144821694;
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