#jaye zimet

[cantsayidont]

#the concept of Lesbian Pulp Novel From the 1950s-60s blows my MIND what do you mean there was a genre of these#was it a hush hush wink and nod kinda thing or did they say so directly

It was typically pretty blatant, although it's important to understand that it existed within a larger context of trashy pulp novels, almost inevitably packaged to look as lurid as possible. Some of the content was also trashy, lurid, and exploitative, and the stuff that's not often ends tragically, sometimes by editorial directive (one mustn't seem to be endorsing Perversity, so the wlw characters not infrequently end up dead, institutionalized, or renouncing the Twilight World for the Love of a Good Man™). For further reading:

STRANGE SISTERS (Viking, 1999) is primarily a survey of cover art, punctuated by frequently awkward commentary by author Jaye Zimet as she struggles to reconcile the trashy sordidness of the material with her embarrassment over her obvious love of the sordidness. LESBIAN PULP FICTION (Cleis Press, 2005) excerpts some of the best and most famous of these books (e.g., Vin Packer, SPRING FIRE; Joan Ellis, THE THIRD STREET; Valerie Taylor, THE GIRLS IN 3-B and RETURN TO LESBOS; Ann Bannon, BEEBO BRINKER and I AM A WOMAN) and provides a kind of sample pack.

[popculturelib]

Want to know more about queer pulp fiction? Here are some suggestions!

Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 (2005) ed. by Katherine V. Forrest

Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969 (1999) by Jaye Zimet

Pulp Friction: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps (2003) ed. by Michael Bronski

Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback (2001) by Susan Stryker

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[karenlacorte]

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[mellowfrienddeputyrascal]

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[femlib]

Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 Jaye Zimet, 1999

Despite all the care devoted to developing cover art that would activate male gonads, women learned to recognize what was a nascent literature of their own by reading the covers iconically. If there was a solitary woman on the cover, provocatively dressed, and the title conveyed her rejection by society or her self-loathing, it was a lesbian book. If there were two women on the cover, and they were touching each other … it was a lesbian book. Even if they were just looking at each other; even if they were simply in proximity to one another; even if they were merely on the same cover together, it was reason to hope you had found a lesbian book. And if a lone male, whether looking embarrassed, hostile, or sexually deprived, appeared with two women, you had probably struck gold ... (from the Foreword by Ann Bannon)

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[lesbianartandartists]

I’ve gotten some questions about what’s going to happen with this blog now that tumblr has changed its terms of service. Chances are that this blog (and potentially all the blogs connected to this account - I’m not sure how tumblr will approach this) will be deleted. I don’t plan to adjust my content in order to comply with the new rules. The rules supposedly allow “nudity found in art, such as sculptures and illustrations,” but I don’t trust tumblr to be able to make any sort of legitimate distinction between what is and is not art. That question in and of itself is one that can’t really be resolved, and especially not when misogyny and homophobia are involved. If you’re interested in previous attempts to draw lines between what is and is not art, there are a few notable examples, including Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart’s 1964 statement regarding the film The Lovers:

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

and Jesse Helms’s attempts to bar the National Endowment for the Arts from using government money to 

promote, disseminate or produce obscene or indecent materials, including but not limited to depictions of sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sex acts, or material which denigrates the objects or beliefs of the adherents of a particular religion or nonreligion.

Debates over what is and is not obscene are also highlighted in This Film Is Not Yet Rated, which documents how sex scenes are evaluated differently by the MPAA when they involve gay content, and The Celluloid Closet, a foundational film (and book) on the representation of gayness in film. Other resources include Richard Meyer’s Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art; Gregory D. Black’s Hollywood Censored: Morality Codes, Catholics, and the Movies; and Jaye Zimet’s Strange Sisters: the Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction, 1949-1969 (and so many others).

This blog and this website are incompatible for many reasons, not least of which is that I have no fucking clue how to define a “female presenting nipple” and I suspect tumblr doesn’t either. Even if there was some logic behind visually (or theoretically) determining the difference between a male nipple and a female nipple, the policy itself is explicitly misogynist and transphobic, and I no longer have any interest in hosting my blog here. I’m not sure if I’ll be moving to another site, building my own site, or leaving the project behind. I’m going to do my best to archive the materials here and make them available, but otherwise I’m unsure. One option I’ve considered is refocusing my attentions toward creating a more robust “lesbian art” category on wikipedia.

I started this project as a way to have content for my research readily available to me. There are a significant number of resources for the study of lesbian art, but I found this format to be potentially more comprehensive and useful to me personally. I’m sad to see it go, but I’m also a little excited about being pushed out of this forum, which has exposed me and others to so much homophobia and misogyny, and toward something new. If the blog is deleted before I can make more plans, you can find updates here: twitter.com/lesbianart.

--Alyssa

[karenlacorte]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: ❤️ Homer For The Holidays.

[mellowfrienddeputyrascal]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Strange Sisters Book.

[mellowfrienddeputyrascal]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Strange Sisters Book.

[mellowfrienddeputyrascal]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Strange Sisters Book.

[mellowfrienddeputyrascal]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Strange Sisters Book.

[mellowfrienddeputyrascal]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Strange Sisters Book.