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Elizabeth Clark-Lewis' 'Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940,' delineates a class of African American women's belief in work as a means for survival. The women in this period preferred live-out work as it focused on a employer-employee relationship, and they received their own money rather than their kin. Live-in work bears the psychological burden of negotiating the disagreements which lie behind a guise of whimsical affection. The book, through the lives of older people, illustrates the dignity sustained by a faith in the outcome of the future.

Social aspects, Criticism and interpretation, Washington, D.C., Domestics, African American women, Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 (Book), Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth

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Arlene Stein's book, 'Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation,' discusses lesbian feminism in the 1970's. The interviews of 41 lesbian-identified women, who were born between 1945 and 1961, became the basis of the book. Lesbianism was treated in relation to developments in society, with gays exposing themselves along with their families and aspirations. The book also discussed "hasbiens" or women who gave up on their lesbian identities and generational factors that influence female separatism, such as establishing families and rearing children.

Women, Behavior, Feminism, Lesbianism

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Daniel Boyarin's book, 'Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man,' discusses the relationship of gender identity and Judaism. It is based on the reestablishment of the traditional model of masculinity, the rejection of Aryan stereotypes of Jewish sexuality at the end of the 19th century. The 'Jewish male sissy' was also redeemed through the critical analysis of Bertha Pappenheim, whose conduct of life provided a pattern on how to merge traditional Judaism with the concept of a 'male feminist Orthodox Jew.'

Jews, Gender identity, Jewish identity, Judaism

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