The famous lady lovers: Black women and queer desire before Stonewall

List of illustrations --

Have we a new sex problem here? --

Women slain in queer love brawl: the violent emergence of lady lovers in the 1920s northern Black press --

The famous lady lovers in the early twentieth-century Black popular entertainment industry --

A freakish party -- Black lady lovers, vice, and space in the prohibition era urban north --

Intimate friends and bosom companions: middle-class Black lady lovers crafting queer kinship networks --

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.