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Its original title with Gold Medal Books was ''I Am a Woman In Love With A Woman Must Society Reject Me?'' Bannon wanted the title to be ''Strangers in this World''<ref>[http://www.annbannon.com/bp/imawomantext.html Ann Bannon<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>(from a conversation the main character has with a stranger who tells her that everyone is a stranger until she finds someone to love), but as Bannon explained in the 2001 edition forward of ''[[Odd Girl Out (novel)|Odd Girl Out]]'', Gold Medal publishers had control over the cover art and the title. Bannon's editor titled the book. Lesbian pulp fiction books usually showed suggestive art with obscure titles that hinted at what the subject matter was inside.<ref>[http://www.annbannon.com/bp/oddgirltext.html Ann Bannon<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> For the 1983 and 2002 editions, the title was shorted to ''I Am A Woman''. It is followed in the series by ''[[Women In The Shadows]]'', also published in 1959.
Bannon was inspired to write after reading ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' and ''[[Spring Fire]]''. However, it was in this book that Bannon wrote one of the first endings in a work of lesbian fiction where none of the characters commit suicide, goes insane, is killed, or is left completely alone. In an interview in 2003, she reluctantly admitted this was her favorite of the series.<ref>Dean, William. [http://www.cleansheets.com/articles/dean_01.08.03.shtml "Out of the Shadows: An Interview with Ann Bannon"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071004174241/http://www.cleansheets.com/articles/dean_01.08.03.shtml |date=2007-10-04 }}. January 8, 2003.</ref>
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