Progressive era spinsters
Introduction : spinsters and lesbians
"What are you going to be?" : families and childhoods in the progressive era
"I knew I was odd" : growing up female
"O, the glorious privilege of being independent" : defining independent womanhood in the progressive era
"I was going to have to do it all on my own" : toward independent womanhood after World War II
"Such beautiful lives together" : community and companions among progressive era women
"We're not the only ones" : lesbian identities and communities after World War II
Spinsters and lesbians: resisting and surviving as independent women