romance – Pulp & Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep An exploration of lesbian pulps and 1950s teen romance Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:55:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.3 120614702 Activist Pep https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2017/10/29/activist-pep/ https://monicanolan.com/pulppep/2017/10/29/activist-pep/#comments Sun, 29 Oct 2017 20:55:53 +0000 http://monicanolan.jayuen.com/pulppep/?p=657 There’s a treasured shelf in my collection of mid-century teen fiction and career girl books. It holds those rare voumes in which the burgeoning civil rights movement of the sixties collides with the whitebread high school fantasies of the fifties to form a schizophrenic hybrid of the malt shoppe romance and the problem novel. It’s culture clash, Y-Teen style.

Titles include Julie’s Heritage (a black high school girl grapples with racism and dating), Why Did You Go to College Linda Warren? (good-girl Linda gets embroiled with anti-war activists during her first year of college), Lots of Love, Lucinda (Corry’s white family invites a black student from the south to stay … Read more

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