Lesbian pulp fiction : the sexually intrepid world of lesbian paperback novels, 1950-1965 / edited by Katherine V. Forrest.
Material type: TextPublication details: San Francisco : Cleis Press, 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: 415 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 1573442100 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Lesbians in literature
- Lesbians' writings, American -- History and criticism
- Lesbians -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Paperbacks -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Pulp literature -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 813.540992 L623 | Available | 33111004430613 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Long before the rise of the modern gay movement, an unnoticed literary revolution was occurring between the covers of the cheaply produced lesbian pulp paperbacks of the post-World War II era. In 1950, publisher Fawcett Books founded its Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction. These were the books that small-town lesbians and prurient men bought by the millions -- cheap, easy to find in drugstores, and immediately recognizable by their lurid covers. Forwomen leading straight lives, here was confirmation that they were not alone and that darkly glamorous, "gay" places like Greenwich Village existed. Some -- especially those written by lesbians -- offered sympathetic and realistic depictions of "life in the shadows," while others (no less fun to read now) were smutty, sensational tales of innocent girls led astray. In the overheated prose typical of the genre, this collection documents the emergence of a lesbian subculture in postwar America.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-413).