Was it right to love her brother's wife so passionately?: Lesbian pulp novels and U.S. lesbian identity, 1950-1965

American Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 385-410

  Keller, Yvonne ^a  

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EID: 65849515097     PISSN: 00030678     EISSN: 10806490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/aq.2005.0028     Document Type: Review

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4. See also Terry Castle, ed. The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). Castle acknowledges the influence of pornography in terms of quantity of lesbian images, but she does not discuss lesbian pulp
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36. See also inside cover, March Hastings, Three Women (New York: Beacon, 1958; Tallahassee: Naiad Press, 1989)
37. See also Grier, "The Lesbian Paperback," 325
38. (originally published under the pseudonym Gene Damon, Tangents 1.9 [June 1966]: 4+)
39. See also Kate Adams, "Making the World Safe," 259. Lee Server considers it a precursor and finds Spring Fire the first in the genre (51). Packer herself claims Spring Fire to be the first (introduction, Cleis Press edition)
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