- History, Lesbians, Social conditions, Women's studies
Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community.
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- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 434
- Publisher
- Routledge, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140235500
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Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy received her Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University, England in 1972 based on her research about the Waunan of the Chocó province, Colombia. Kennedy was a founding member of Women's Studies at SUNY, Buffalo where she taught for twenty-eight years. She is author of *Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of A Lesbian Community*, which received the Jesse Barnard Award for the best book on women in the field of Sociology in 1994, the Ruth Benedict Award for the best book on a gay/lesbian theme in Anthropology in 1994, and a Lambda Literary Award in 1993. She has also written about the development of women's studies as a field, including the bo
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