Feminism, sexuality, and politics : essays /

Main Author: Freedman, Estelle B., 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
Series:Gender and American culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Identities, values, and inquiries : a personal history
  • Separatism as strategy : female institution building and American feminism, 1870-1930
  • Separatism revisited : women's institutions, social reform, and the career of Miriam Van Waters
  • Women's networks and women's loyalties : reflections on a tenure case
  • Small group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times
  • No turning back : the historical resilience of feminism
  • The historical construction of homosexuality in the United States
  • Uncontrolled desires : the response to the sexual psychopath, 1920-1960
  • The prison lesbian : race, class, and the construction of the aggressive female homosexual, 1915-1965
  • The burning of letters continues : elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality
  • When historical interpretation meets legal advocacy : abortion, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.