Suffering Sappho! : : Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture / / Barbara Jane Brickman.
An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave butch emcee introduces the sequined and feathered stars of the era's most celebrated drag revue...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] 2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 15 B-W photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 The Big "Lesbian" Show in Postwar American Culture, a History
- 2 Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian "Sicko"
- 3 A Strange Desire That Never Dies: Monstrous Lesbian Camp at the Movies
- 4 Spinsters, Career Gals, and Butch Comedy in 1950s Television
- 5 Amazon Princesses and Sorority Queers, or the Golden Age(s) of Comic Lesbians
- 6 Sexual Outlaw: Disidentification, Race, and the Postwar Lesbian Rebel
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Filmography
- Index
- About the Author