Publisher: Cleis Press Date of Addition: 09/21/14 Copyrighted By: Katherine V. In the overheated prose typical of the genre, this collection documents the emergence of a lesbian subculture in postwar America.Ĭopyright: 2005 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9781573444866 Related ISBNs: 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. Forrest - Google Books Books Add to my library Write review What people are saying - Write a review Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for. For women leading straight lives, here was confirmation that they were not alone and that darkly glamorous, "gay" places like Greenwich Village existed. 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. Forrests anthology, Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965, brought back these memories and. In 1950, publisher Fawcett Books founded its Gold Medal imprint, inaugurating the reign of lesbian pulp fiction. 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.
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