Making Girls Into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity

by Kathryn R. Kent

Book Overview

Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the lesbian" by looking at late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women's writing. Kathryn R. Kent proposes that modern lesbian identity in the United States has its roots not just, or even primarily, in sexology and medical literature, but in white, middle-class women's culture. Kent demonstrates how, as white women's culture shifted more and more from the home to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330164
• ISBN13: 9780822330165
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.6"