Inventing Lesbian Cultures

This collection of eight essays gives a wonderful overview of how lesbians think, live, love, and deal with the world today. Editor Ellen Lewin has gathered pieces that range from an examination of lesbian subcultures in South Dakota in the 1930s to an analysis of the lesbian motherhood to a description of the nightlife of black lesbians in Detroit from 1940 to 1975. The essays--informed, well written and fascinating--give us a view of lesbian history and life unprecedented in scope. For the academic, or for the common reader interested in gay history, Inventing Lesbian Cultures in America is mandatory reading.