Masculinity In Lesbian Pulp Fiction
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Masculinity In Lesbian Pulp Fiction
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Author : Paul Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-06-28
Masculinity In Lesbian Pulp Fiction written by Paul Thompson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-28 with Social Science categories.
This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2. It challenges established critical assumptions about the readership, and sets the masculinity imagined in these novels against the “masculinity crisis” of the era in which they were written. The key issue of these novels is couplehood as much as sexuality, and the instability of masculinity leads to the instability of the couple. Thompson coins the term “heteroemulative” to describe the struggle that both heterosexual and homosexual couples have in conforming to heteronormativity. As several of these novels have been republished and remain in print, they have taken on a new relevance to issues of sexuality and gender in the twentyfirst century, and this study will attract readers within that area of interest. A valuable read for sociologists studying gender roles, and social historians of the cold war period in the United States. It is suitable for readers of all academic levels, from undergraduate, through postgraduate, to scholars and researchers, but also for a general readership.
Masculinity In Lesbian Pulp Fiction
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Author : Paul Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Masculinity In Lesbian Pulp Fiction written by Paul Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with American fiction categories.
"This book looks specifically and in depth, for the first time, at masculinity in cheap, lesbian-themed paperbacks of the two decades after WW2. It challenges established critical assumptions about the readership, and sets the masculinity imagined in these novels against the "masculinity crisis" of the era in which they were written. The key issue of these novels is couplehood as much as sexuality, and the instability of masculinity leads to the instability of the couple. Thompson coins the term "heteroemulative" to describe the struggle that both heterosexual and homosexual couples have in conforming to heteronormativity. As several of these novels have been republished and remain in print, they have taken on a new relevance to issues of sexuality and gender in the twenty-first century, and this study will attract readers within that area of interest. A valuable read for sociologists studying gender roles, and social historians of the cold war period in the United States. It is suitable for readers of all academic levels, from undergraduate, through postgraduate, to scholars and researchers, but also for a general readership"--
The Beebo Brinker Omnibus
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Author : Ann Bannon
language : en
Publisher: Cleis Press Start
Release Date : 2015-11-10
The Beebo Brinker Omnibus written by Ann Bannon and has been published by Cleis Press Start this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Designated the "queen of lesbian pulp fiction" for authoring five landmark novels, Ann Bannon's work defined lesbian fiction for the pre-Stonewall generation. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead women characters who embrace their sexuality against great odds. With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces the title character, a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in New York after she is driven from her Wisconsin home town for wearing drag to the State Fair. Befriended by the gay Jack Mann, a father figure with a weakness for runaways, Beebo sets out to find love. She never knew what she wanted — until she came to Greenwich Village and found the love that smolders in the shadows of the twilight world. The 880-page Beebo Brinker Omnibus includes the novels Beebo Brinker, I Am a Woman, Journey to a Woman, Odd Girl Out, and Women in the Shadows. Sexy, dangerous, and often touching, the paperbacks sold millions. Chronicling the reality of 1950s lesbian life, Beebo Brinker is an astounding and engaging read.
Man Among Women
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Author : Randy Salem
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-18
Man Among Women written by Randy Salem and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-18 with categories.
How does a man win back a woman he's lost to another woman? A lesbian pulp fiction classic, back in print for the first time in over sixty years. Declared "indecent" in 1961 by National Organization for Decent LiteratureThey called themselves the "fringe society." Wealthy, attractive, smart, young women who fled to the Bahamas to pursue a difference lifestyle. Were they tired of compromising with life? Were they seeking freedom? If so, freedom to do what?Photojournalist Ralph Thayer, tired of New York and his fiance, heads to the Bahamas for a vacation...but instead meets Alison Adams, who introduces him to the forbidden secrets of her female circle...and finds himself fighting for her affections with another woman. Using all of his masculine charms, and he has many, he engages in an all out war with striking Maxine Carpenter for Alison's heart and body. With savage fury, born of jealousy and envy, Maxine frantically lashes back. "Man Among Women accommodates the genre's insistence on male voyeurism but resists the male power that traditionally accompanies it... The male protagonist is allowed to look at lesbians but always with painful consequences." Yvonne Keller, American Quarterly "Randy Salem has written another top-notch lesbian paperback. Surprisingly, the story line is male-oriented but despite this drawback, it is a superior paperback, full of well-drawn convincing lesbians." Gene Damon, Ladder"Randy Salem" was the pseudonyn for Pat Purdue, a major name in lesbian pulp fiction...and the longtime lover of Sally Singer, also a prolific author of lesbian pulp fiction under the pseudonum "March Hastings." Salem's other ground-breaking books include Chris, Tender Torment, The Unfortunate Flesh, The Soft Sin, and The Sex Between.
Lesbian Pulp Fiction
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Author : Katheirne Forrest
language : en
Publisher: Cleis Press
Release Date : 2005-06-01
Lesbian Pulp Fiction written by Katheirne Forrest and has been published by Cleis Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-01 with Fiction categories.
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: often a hard-looking brunette standing over a scantily clad blonde, or a man gazing in tormented lust at a lovely, unobtainable lesbian. For women 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.
Beebo Brinker
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Author : Ann Bannon
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2014-08-01
Beebo Brinker written by Ann Bannon and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Fiction categories.
The classic 1950s love story from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and author of Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman and Beebo Brinker She never knew what she wanted – until she came to Greenwich Village and found the love that smolders in the shadows of the twilight world. Taking a pseudonym in the interest of privacy, Bannon wrote her first book, Odd Girl Out, as a coming-of-age novel that involved love between college sorority sisters. When an editor singled-out the school-girl romance as her story's most compelling feature, the book was re-written for a lesbian pulp fiction audience. Unlike most pulps, however, Bannon broke with tradition by avoiding sensationalistic plots in favour of emotionally engaged character development. Odd Girl Out enjoyed tremendous success, inspiring other ground-breaking works, most notably Beebo Brinker. Her sensitive renderings of sexuality also won Bannon a devoted following among isolated lesbians everywhere. "I got nice letters from a lot of really lovely women, and women who were hurting a lot, and women all over the country," Bannon remarks. "So many saying, 'Thank God I finally got connected with somebody who really knows what this is about.' " The character of Beebo is among the most-loved lesbians ever to appear in gay and lesbian fiction. "I never met Beebo in the flesh, but she was part of my daydreams from a very early time," Bannon says of her ultra-butch protagonist.
Writing Shame
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Author : Mitchell Kaye Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Writing Shame written by Mitchell Kaye Mitchell and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Fiction categories.
Examines the intersection of shame, gender and writing in contemporary literatureConsiders the particular intersection of shame, gender and writing in literature produced since the 1990sViews shame as a constitutive factor in the social construction and experience of femininityAnalyses a diverse range of texts from pulp to literary fiction to life writing and autofiction, with a self-reflexive focus on the formal disjunctions produced by/in the writing of shame, and on the shame attending the act of writing itselfOffers political readings of neglected genres (lesbian pulp fiction), highly topical texts (like Kraus's I Love Dick and Knausgaard's My Struggle), and established authors (such as Mary Gaitskill, A.M. Homes, Rupert Thomson)Through readings of an array of recent texts - literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental - this book maps out a contemporary, Western, shame culture. It unpicks the complex triangulation of shame, gender and writing, and intervenes forcefully in feminist and queer debates of the last three decades. Starting from the premise that shame cannot be overcome or abandoned, and that femininity and shame are utterly and necessarily imbricated, Writing Shame examines writing that explores and inhabits this state of shame, considering the dissonant effects of such explorations on and beyond the page.
Women In The Shadow
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Author : Ann Bannon
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2014-08-01
Women In The Shadow written by Ann Bannon and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Fiction categories.
The classic 1950s love story from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and author of Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman and Beebo Brinker. A guarded look across the room was all she dared–and this was Greenwich Village where almost anything goes... Following on from classic novels Odd Girl Out and I am a Woman, Women in the Shadows picks up with Beebo's relationship with Laura, as both women become caught in the cultural tumult (gay bar raids, heavy drinking, gay rights advocacy) that anticipates by ten years the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969. New introduction explains the book's evolution, including the role Bannon's divorce played in shaping the lesbian protagonist's outrage. New Introduction by Ann Bannon “Originally published in 1959, Women in the Shadows broke from the formula of 1950s lesbian pulp fiction. The women in this novel were tied to convention, but they were still ahead of their time. In its proper historical context, Women in the Shadows is a masterpiece” Hélène Cixous Praise for Ann Bannon “Bannon's books grab you and don't let go” Village Voice “When I was young, Bannon's books let me imagine myself into her New York City neighborhoods of short–haired, dark–eyed butch women and stubborn, tight–lipped secretaries with hearts ready to be broken. Her books come close to the kind of books that had made me feel fatalistic and damned in my youth, but somehow she just managed to sustain a sense of hope. And of course, there was her romantic portrait of the kind of butch woman I idealized. I would have dated Beebo, no question” Dorothy Allison “Called trash by the literary world and pornography by the commercial world, Ann Bannon's books were hidden away on drugstore pulp racks. To pick out the book, carry it to the counter and face the other shoppers and the cashier was tantamount to coming out. But all across the country, lesbians were doing it” Joan Nestle “Little did Bannon know that her stories would become legends, inspiring countless fledgling dykes to flock to the Village, dog–eared copies of her books in hand, to find their own Beebos and Lauras and others who shared the love they dared not name” San Francisco Bay Guardian “Ann Bannon is a pioneer of dyke drama” On Our Backs “Shameless tales of wanton dyke lust are finally unveiled!” Out magazine
Journey To A Woman
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Author : Ann Bannon
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2014-08-01
Journey To A Woman written by Ann Bannon and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Fiction categories.
The classic 1950s love story from the Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, and author of Odd Girl Out, I Am a Woman, Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman and Beebo Brinker Would she throw away her entire life on the one wild chance that she might find the lost woman out of her past? Following on from classic novels Odd Girl Out, I am a Woman and Women in the Shadows, Journey to a Woman finds Laura in love among the lesbian bohemia of Greenwich Village. Praise for Ann Bannon “Bannon's books grab you and don't let go” Village Voice “When I was young, Bannon's books let me imagine myself into her New York City neighborhoods of short-haired, dark-eyed butch women and stubborn, tight-lipped secretaries with hearts ready to be broken. Her books come close to the kind of books that had made me feel fatalistic and damned in my youth, but somehow she just managed to sustain a sense of hope. And of course, there was her romantic portrait of the kind of butch woman I idealized. I would have dated Beebo, no question” Dorothy Allison “Called trash by the literary world and pornography by the commercial world, Ann Bannon's books were hidden away on drugstore pulp racks. To pick out the book, carry it to the counter and face the other shoppers and the cashier was tantamount to coming out. But all across the country, lesbians were doing it” Joan Nestle “Little did Bannon know that her stories would become legends, inspiring countless fledgling dykes to flock to the Village, dog-eared copies of her books in hand, to find their own Beebos and Lauras and others who shared the love they dared not name” San Francisco Bay Guardian “Ann Bannon is a pioneer of dyke drama” On Our Backs “Shameless tales of wanton dyke lust are finally unveiled!” Out magazine
I Am A Woman
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Author : Ann Bannon
language : en
Publisher: Mockingbird Press
Release Date : 2020-07-31
I Am A Woman written by Ann Bannon and has been published by Mockingbird Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-31 with categories.
I Am a Woman, first published in 1959, is the second installment of the lesbian pulp fiction series, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles. It follows Laura, a young woman who moves to Greenwich Village and grapples with her recently discovered identity as a lesbian. Ann Bannon, the author of I Am a Woman, did not live the free-spirited Greenwich Village life of her literary heroines. Immediately after graduating from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she married a young engineer and settled down to start a family in Philadelphia. Although she had some suspicions of her own homosexuality during college, she-like many other young women at the time-expected that marriage would resolve those lingering doubts. After reading two popular lesbian books-1928's The Well of Loneliness and 1952's Spring Fire-she decided to explore similar themes in her own writing. But Bannon's stories were set apart from other lesbian pulp novels of the day through their optimistic tenor. Prior to Bannon's work, gay characters were generally required to meet a tragic end-either by suicide or mental breakdown. Until the mid-1950s, the U.S. Postal Service would refuse to deliver books if they depicted homosexuality in a positive light. But, by the time Bannon began publishing later in the decade, the outcome of several obscenity trials resulted in slight relaxations of this censorship, giving her the option of delivering more hopeful endings. Still, this was a time of extreme difficulty for gays and lesbians in the United States. Federal employees were terminated for "sexual perversion," which included same sex attraction. Homosexuality was included in the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders, and frequent raids on gay and lesbian bars landed people in jail for "lewd behavior." I Am a Woman, finds Laura recently moved to New York City after the painful ending of her first love affair with another girl at her sorority. After dropping out of college, she escaped to Manhattan, intending to close off her life to romance. In Greenwich Village, Laura is immersed in a new environment more open to homosexuality. She makes gay friends and explores underground gay and lesbian bars. But she is still uncomfortable with who she is, and her life is further complicated by falling in love with her straight roommate, Marcie. After I Am a Woman's release, Bannon received fan mail from women all across the country thanking her for making them feel normal and giving them hope for a happy ending. The optimism in Bannon's writing was so unexpected some women even reported that the book saved their lives. Over the next few years, Bannon wrote four more novels-three in The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, and one standalone novel that is loosely related to the series. Then, in 1962, almost as soon as she began, her fiction writing stopped. Bannon earned a master's degree from Sacramento State University and a doctorate in linguistics from Stanford. She then became an English professor at Sacramento State, and later associate dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. She and her husband divorced when their two daughters reached adulthood. Immersed in her new career, Bannon didn't realize how wide an impact her works continued to have in the gay and lesbian communities. Her books provided a realistic-if melodramatic-take on the lives of gay and lesbian Americans at a time when these stories were either hidden from view or presented as lurid and tawdry.