Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Howard FosterHachette Books, 10.06.2008 - 528 Seiten Jeannette Howard Foster was to lesbianism in the mid-twentieth century what out authors such as Gore Vidal and James Baldwin were to gay men. She unapologetically blew the lid off Cold War sexual repression in 1956 with her Sex Variant Women in Literature-the first-ever study of homosexual, bisexual, and cross-dressing characters appearing in more than 300 works, from ancient times to the present. Joanne Passet's Sex Variant Woman is a fascinating portrait of Foster, who served as the first librarian at the Kinsey Institute before leaving to publish her controversial book. It is also a riveting look into the pre-Stonewall past, the intense sexual repression and persecution endured by homosexuals, the groundbreaking advances put forth by a cadre of activists, and the rise of feminism and gay and lesbian liberation decades later. |
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Two Romantic Friendship and Voiceless Longing | |
Three Unrequited Love | |
Four Libraries and Loves During the Great Depression | |
Five Another Philadelphia Story 19371948 | |
Six The Sex Researcher and the Librarian | |
Seven Sex Variant Women in Literature | |
Eight Hail and Farewell | |
Nine Gaiety Must Be Gaining Respectability | |
Ten Exit Laughing | |
Epilogue | |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
INDEX | |
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ABF college diary American Anna April August Barbara Grier campus Carrie Burr Prouty Clara Louise Thompson daughter Daughters of Bilitis December Diana Press Drexel Education email Emory University English faculty February felt female feminist fiction Foster Correspondence FosterKinsey Correspondence friends gays and lesbians Hazel Toliver Helen homosexuality Institute for Sex January Jeannette Foster Jeannette H Jeannette Howard Foster Jeannette’s JHF to Karla JHF to Valerie July June Karla Jay Kinsey Institute Kinsey’s knew Ladder Lenore lesbian literature librarian Lillian Faderman lived LSAF Mabel manuscript March Mary Naiad Press November October Paul Gebhard Philadelphia poems poetry position Public Library published relationship Review Rockford College September Sex Research Sex Variant Women sexual SFPL Shorter College social story summer Toliver to Valerie University of Chicago Valerie Taylor VTWP Winslow Howard Foster woman Women in Literature wrote York