Title:
To believe in women : what lesbians have done for America--a history
Author:
Publication Date:
1999
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999.
Physical Description:
xii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780395850107
9780618056972
Abstract:
"A reappraisal of women who are known by history but whose histories are incomplete, To Believe in Women examines how their lesbianism may in fact have facilitated their accomplishments. Lillian Faderman persuasively argues that even before a "lesbian identity" was defined, many female leaders had what would now be called lesbian relationships, free from the constraints of traditional heterosexual arrangements, which might have impeded their pursuits in education, politics, professional life, and culture."--Jacket.
General Note:
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection.
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.
Language:
English
