![]() Within these novels, strong erotic elements play off intelligent, self-sufficient characters, and love between women is nurturing and satisfying. The covers may have screamed warnings of a twilight world where freakish "third sex" predators shattered innocent lives, but as Forrest shows, lesbian love fared far better inside the pages. Forrest * Cleis * $18.95Īre the pulps more about empowerment than perversity? More literature than lust? While much that's been written about lesbian pulp novels to date has emphasized their camp appeal, Forrest reaches beyond the sleazy covers and sensationalized jacket copy to demonstrate these dime novels' literary strengths and their role in bringing solace and solidarity to postwar lesbians. Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965 MLA style: "Standout sisters." The Free Library. ![]()
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