Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis
Pages: 478
Date: May 9 2014 (originally published 1993)
Publisher: Routledge
Review
Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0
Read: February 18 to February 20 2015
I might be able to get around to a more review review, but for the moment I move the notes I made from the update status part to here.
One of the things I've learned is that Ann Bannon was quite good at capturing the lesbian culture. Written and set in the 1950s and 1960s, the culture displayed corresponds to the culture learned of from the oral history presented in Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold.
It is somewhat unfortunate that the book pulls mostly from the bar culture. There are reasons why it does so, mostly related to how, at the time, if you wished to be openly lesbian you had bars you could go to and . . . . not much else to experience the lesbian culture. At least if you were white. And working class. Blacks had house parties, and then later bars. Unfortunate as I'm not a bar person. So can't relate as well as I might otherwise.
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