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Sex variant woman : the life of Jeannette Howard Foster

Author: Joanne Ellen Passet
Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : English : 1st Da Capo Press edView all editions and formats
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A biography of the first librarian at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, later recognized as one of the founding mothers of lesbian studies.
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Genre/Form: Biographies
Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Passet, Joanne Ellen, 1954-
Sex variant woman.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2008
(OCoLC)609316699
Online version:
Passet, Joanne Ellen, 1954-
Sex variant woman.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2008
(OCoLC)610013740
Named Person: Jeannette H Foster; Jeannette H Foster
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joanne Ellen Passet
ISBN: 9780786718221 0786718226
OCLC Number: 180752189
Description: xxx, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Early years --
Romantic friendship and voiceless longing --
Unrequited love --
Libraries and loves during the Great Depression --
Another Philadelphia story (1937-1948) --
The sex researcher and the librarian --
Sex variant women in literature --
Hail and farewell --
Gaiety must be gaining respectability! --
Exit laughing --
Epilogue.
Responsibility: Joanne Passet.
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A biography of the first librarian at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, later recognized as one of the founding mothers of lesbian studies.

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