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A lifetime learning to be a lesbian : oral history transcript / 2001.
05/23/03 T08/14/02 T
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Title:

A lifetime learning to be a lesbian: oral history transcript / 2001
Gay bears! oral history series; no. 10

Creator/Contributor:

Wansley, Ann., creator, ive

Creator/Contributor:

Benemann, William, 1949-, ivr

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, University Archives.

Abstract:

Wansley talks about coming to Cal in 1940, and the experience of encountering a mentally ill roommate who attacks her (and a second roommate) with a knife. She describes how the trauma brought her and her second roommate together, eventually becoming a lesbian relationship. At the outbreak of World War II, she suspends her education temporarily in order to work as a welder in the San Francisco shipyards. In 1945 she enrolls in Boalt Hall Law School, one of a small group of women in the post-War class. She describes her career as an attorney, including many years with the Judge Advocate General's Office. She speaks at length about her struggle as a Catholic to resolve her sexuality and her spirituality, and the process of forming a lesbian identity.

Date:

2001 (issued)

Subject:

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University of California, Berkeley -- Students -- Interviews
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Law -- History -- Sources
Lesbians -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Lesbian college students -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Women lawyers -- California -- Interviews

Note:

Ann Wansley ; an interview conducted by William Benemann in 2001. The University Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Gay Bears! oral history project ; no. 10
Audio tape recording of the interview also available in The University Archives.
Volume includes index.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
ii, 28 p. : port. ; 28 cm.
2 sound cassettes.

Language:

English

Identifier:

Origin:

California