Awfully devoted women : lesbian lives in Canada, 1900-65 / Cameron Duder.

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010], ©2010.

ix, 313 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Relationships between women : the "knitting together of mind and spirit" -- Lesbian social worlds, 1900-50 : "So there seems to be a fair amount of it about -- Physical sexuality : "How did you get here Miss Brown?" -- Growing up under heteronormativity -- Sexual relationships in postwar Canada : "We found our way to it easily enough" -- Making the unspoken plain : sexual practice -- Relationships : lesbian couples and their families -- Middle-class lesbian community in the 1950s and 1960s.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-308) and index.