bohemian – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:05:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2012/03/30/i-am-woman-hear-me-roar/ Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:01 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=100 The Lion House, Marjorie Lee (1959, Rinehart)

“A shockingly candid tale of misbegotten sexuality…” (New York Herald Tribune) “the probable successor to Lolita…you might say Marjorie Lee has dramatized the Kinsey Report” (Hartford Times).

Would that were so! Here’s the shocking truth about this lesbian pulp: no lesbian sex. None. Not even some groping. It’s all come on (look at that cover!) and no delivery. I should have suspected something was amiss, when even Lucy Freeman (author of Fight Against Fears) told me in the forward that I was in for something juicy. “The reader will feel like gasping in shock as … Read more

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