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1940s through 60s culture[edit]

Scholars Heidi M. Levitt and Sara K. Bridges state that the terms butch and femme are derived from the 1940s-1950s American lesbian communities following World War II "when women joined the work force and began wearing pants, creating the possibility for the development of a butch aesthetic and gender expression within gay women's communities." They state that "the butch-femme culture made lesbians visible for the first time."[4]

Femme lesbian scholar Joan Nestle describes the femme lesbian identity as being underrepresented in historical r

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