In our final episode of season one, FHSU graduate student in history, Alison Helget, joins Hollie Marquess to discuss her master’s thesis “‘You Wanna Play Rough?’: The Italian Mafia and Butch Lesbian Partnership in Greenwich Village, 1945-1968.”
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Selected Bibliography:
Breckinridge, Sophonisba. New Homes for Old. New York: Harper, 1921.
Chapin, Anna Alice. Greenwich Village. New York: Dood, Mead and Company, 1920.
Lanzillotto, Annie Rachele. L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir. New York: The State University of New York, Excelsior Editions, 2013.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
Crawford, Phillip Jr. The Mafia and the Gays. Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
Underwood, Lisa. The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators. Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis Group, 2004.
Wetzsteon, Ross. Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
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