I've got some news about Pat Savage.
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thebitterguyAs heard on this morning's Metro Morning, York University now has one of the largest collections of lesbian themed pulp fiction in the world.
"Sexual diversity is one of these emerging fields, which now has access to more than 850 titles of lesbian pulp fiction in the Ruth Dworin collection that provides comprehensive coverage of this paperback genre during its heyday in the 1950s and early 1960s."
I don't know if this is the sort of stuff that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
doc_mystery is interested in, or if ratmmjess would do a book on. But it's an interesting collection to have.
From the York U Magazine article about the acquisition, and errors are the fault of the transcriber (ie YHB):
"Fifty years ago you might have had a hard time purchasing one of these pulp novels in any high-end bookstore -- they were considered "racy" and fringe at the time. But thanks to the acquisition by York LIbraries of a huge collection of lesbian pulp-fiction titles, scholars and students aliek can now study the development of this sub-genre of pop literature.
The Ruth Dworin collection provides York with comprehensive coverage of a literary phenom that had its heyday in the 1950s and early '60s. Dworin, who works part-time in York's Canadian Women's Studies journal office, approached the University about her donation a few years ago, says Michael Moir, University archivist and head of the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections.
"The collection is made up of more than 850 books, pamphlets and comic books dealing with lesbian fiction and related critical material published between 1924 & 1969," Moir says. About 400 items fall into the genre of lesbian pulp novels.
The Genre was know for its explicit lesbian themes and provocative cover art," says Moir. "The collection should be of interest to faculty and students in the filds of sexuality and women's studies as well as to a broader community of researchers interested in sexual diversity."
The collection also includes Dworin's personal records (diaries, calendars, vinyl recordings, correspondence, etc) created while a music producer, queer activist, community organizer and business manager between 1967 and 1999.
"Sexual diversity is one of these emerging fields, which now has access to more than 850 titles of lesbian pulp fiction in the Ruth Dworin collection that provides comprehensive coverage of this paperback genre during its heyday in the 1950s and early 1960s."
I don't know if this is the sort of stuff that
doc_mystery is interested in, or if ratmmjess would do a book on. But it's an interesting collection to have. From the York U Magazine article about the acquisition, and errors are the fault of the transcriber (ie YHB):
"Fifty years ago you might have had a hard time purchasing one of these pulp novels in any high-end bookstore -- they were considered "racy" and fringe at the time. But thanks to the acquisition by York LIbraries of a huge collection of lesbian pulp-fiction titles, scholars and students aliek can now study the development of this sub-genre of pop literature.
The Ruth Dworin collection provides York with comprehensive coverage of a literary phenom that had its heyday in the 1950s and early '60s. Dworin, who works part-time in York's Canadian Women's Studies journal office, approached the University about her donation a few years ago, says Michael Moir, University archivist and head of the Clara Thomas Archives & Special Collections.
"The collection is made up of more than 850 books, pamphlets and comic books dealing with lesbian fiction and related critical material published between 1924 & 1969," Moir says. About 400 items fall into the genre of lesbian pulp novels.
The Genre was know for its explicit lesbian themes and provocative cover art," says Moir. "The collection should be of interest to faculty and students in the filds of sexuality and women's studies as well as to a broader community of researchers interested in sexual diversity."
The collection also includes Dworin's personal records (diaries, calendars, vinyl recordings, correspondence, etc) created while a music producer, queer activist, community organizer and business manager between 1967 and 1999.
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Date: 2007-02-13 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-13 10:02 pm (UTC)While some of the bad-girl cover art on some of these paperbacks is kinda fun to look at, I'm not a fan of either the BSMD or queer themes, and I don't think I have a single representative titles in my paperback collection, while I have lots of SF, fantasy, detective, horror and even western titles.
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Date: 2007-02-13 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-13 11:16 pm (UTC)You'll have her cousin after you before you know it, and the next thing you'll know is waking up with a headache, a couple of healing scars on your head, and the persistent urge to change your online monicker to thesweetguy.
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Date: 2007-02-14 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-14 04:00 pm (UTC)Big difference!
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Date: 2007-02-14 05:32 pm (UTC)