Lesbian Pulp Television: Torment, Trauma and Transformations in The L Word – Rebecca Beirne

Discussing the 1950s and 60s in a paper on lesbian pulp fiction, Yvonne Keller characterises the era as a time where “Dominant culture sought a return to a mythical pre-War, pre-Depression ‘normality’ visioned in ideologically conservative terms,” a time of increased paranoia and suspicion (about communism and homosexuality), and as having a focus on surveillance … Continue reading Lesbian Pulp Television: Torment, Trauma and Transformations in The L Word – Rebecca Beirne