The Famous Lady Lovers: Black Women and Queer Desire Before Stonewall
In: Gender and American Culture Series
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- INTRODUCTION. Have We a New Sex Problem Here? -- ONE. Woman Slain in Queer Love Brawl: The Violent Emergence of Lady Lovers in the 1920s Northern Black Press -- TWO. The Famous Lady Lovers in the Early Twentieth-Century Black Popular Entertainment Industry -- THREE. A Freakish Party: Black Lady Lovers, Vice, and Space in the Prohibition Era Urban North -- FOUR. Intimate Friends and Bosom Companions: Middle-Class Black Lady Lovers Crafting Queer Kinship Networks -- CONCLUSION -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.