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02711aam a22003498i 4500 001 98C547326CB211EE935F82A422ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231017010119 008 230330s2023 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023014310 020 $a 146967548X 020 $a 9781469675480 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a HQ76.27.A37 $b W66 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230420 100 1 $a Woolner, Cookie, $e author. 245 14 $a THE FAMOUS LADY LOVERS : $b BLACK WOMEN AND QUEER DESIRE BEFORE STONEWALL / $c Cookie Woolner. 263 $a 2309 264 1 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm. 490 1 $a Gender and American culture 500 $a 2023/09/12 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "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 emergingsexual 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African American lesbians $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Sexual minority culture $z United States. 650 7 $a HISTORY / African American & Black $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies $2 bisacsh 830 0 $a Gender & American culture. $9 100881 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20231017010647.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=98C547326CB211EE935F82A422ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search