Add to ORKGThis paper examines the influence of McCarthyism and American postwar conservatism upon lesbian-penned works both during and after the 1950s. During the paranoia of McCarthyism, the lesbian pulp fiction genre allowed queer authors to provide outlets for desire, but maintained homophobic sentiment through various techniques in literature. In works published after the period, the effects of McCarthyism and the larger Red Scare incited a sense of isolation and paranoia in identity within queer writers. This paper analyzes selected works from Ann Bannon’s “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles”, Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt, and Audre Lorde’s Zami through a New Historicism perspective, while also providing historical background and applying qu...
The focus of this work has been almost exclusively on deterosexual women, albeit not necessarily con...
The early decades of the twentieth century saw incredible changes in both literacy and general publi...
The study of lesbian pulp fiction is an integral aspect of working against what Adrienne Rich calls ...
The 1950s and 1960s were terribly oppressive for lesbians. Not only was homosexuality considered an ...
In this research I explore the political roots and implications of lesbian pulp-fiction, which were ...
Published in a time when tragedy was pervasive in gay literature, Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel Th...
This article is part of a larger research project on postwar feminism and lesbian pulp fiction. It ...
This thesis explores the liminal lesbian spaces established within heteronormative American society ...
The Sexualization of Mental Illness in Postwar American Literature argues how writers during the Col...
This thesis argues for and conducts close reading on lesbian pulp fiction published in the United St...
In recent years, critics of neoliberalism have turned to new forms of affective labor as one of the ...
Discussing the 1950s and 60s in a paper on lesbian pulp fiction, Yvonne Keller characterises the era...
This dissertation focuses on various texts of the early Cold War (1945-1960) to show how several pol...
In existing scholarship of twentieth-century British lesbian history the post-war period has been la...
Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as...
The focus of this work has been almost exclusively on deterosexual women, albeit not necessarily con...
The early decades of the twentieth century saw incredible changes in both literacy and general publi...
The study of lesbian pulp fiction is an integral aspect of working against what Adrienne Rich calls ...
The 1950s and 1960s were terribly oppressive for lesbians. Not only was homosexuality considered an ...
In this research I explore the political roots and implications of lesbian pulp-fiction, which were ...
Published in a time when tragedy was pervasive in gay literature, Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel Th...
This article is part of a larger research project on postwar feminism and lesbian pulp fiction. It ...
This thesis explores the liminal lesbian spaces established within heteronormative American society ...
The Sexualization of Mental Illness in Postwar American Literature argues how writers during the Col...
This thesis argues for and conducts close reading on lesbian pulp fiction published in the United St...
In recent years, critics of neoliberalism have turned to new forms of affective labor as one of the ...
Discussing the 1950s and 60s in a paper on lesbian pulp fiction, Yvonne Keller characterises the era...
This dissertation focuses on various texts of the early Cold War (1945-1960) to show how several pol...
In existing scholarship of twentieth-century British lesbian history the post-war period has been la...
Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as...
The focus of this work has been almost exclusively on deterosexual women, albeit not necessarily con...
The early decades of the twentieth century saw incredible changes in both literacy and general publi...
The study of lesbian pulp fiction is an integral aspect of working against what Adrienne Rich calls ...