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title	:	The Lesbian Menace : Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life
author	:	Inness, Sherrie A.
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1558490906
print isbn13	:	9781558490901
ebook isbn13	:	9780585083681
language	:	English
subject	American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Lesbians in literature, Lesbians--United States--Identity, Popular culture--United States, Gays in popular culture, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	PS228.L47I56 1997eb
ddc	:	810.9/9206643
subject	:	American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Lesbians in literature, Lesbians--United States--Identity, Popular culture--United States, Gays in popular culture, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Page iii The Lesbian Menace Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life Sherrie A. Inness University of Massachusetts Press Amherst

Page iv Copyright 1997 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 96-53173 ISBN 1-55849-090-6 (cloth); 091-4 (pbk.) Designed by Sally Nichols Set in Berkeley by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Inness, Sherrie A. The lesbian menace : ideology, identity, and the representation of lesbian life / Sherrie A. Inness. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55849-090-6 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-091-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Lesbians in literature. 3. LesbiansUnited StatesIdentity. 4. Popular cultureUnited States. 5. Gays in popular culture. 6. Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th century. I. Title. PS228.L47156 1997 810.9'9206643dc2196-53173 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.

Page v For my mother and father and Michele

Page vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Inventing the Lesbian 1. Who's Afraid of Stephen Gordon? The Lesbian in the United States Popular Imagination of the 1920s 13 2. "Malevolent, Neurotic, and Tainted" The Lesbian Menace in Popular Women's College Fiction 33 3. "They're Here, They're Flouncy, Don't Worry About Them" Depicting Lesbians in Popular Women's Magazines, 19651995 52 Part II. Forms of Resistance 4. Is Nancy Drew Queer? Popular Reading Strategies for the Lesbian Reader 79

Page viii 5. "Candy-coated Cyanide" Children's Books and Lesbian Images 101 Part III. Writing in the Margins 6. Lost in Space Queer Geography and the Politics of Location 131 7. To Pass or Not to Pass Thoughts on Passing and Lesbian Identities 158 8. GI Joes in Barbie Land Recontextualizing the Meaning of Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture, with Michele E. Lloyd 178 Notes 205 Works Cited 225 Index 247

Page ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank a number of people who have read drafts of my book or parts of it, including Ruth Ebelke, Valija Evalds, Faye Parker Flavin, Julie Inness, Kate Johnson, Michele Lloyd, Debra Mandel, Diana Royer, Judith Russo, Kathryn Shevelow, Annette Shook, Nicole Tonkovich, and Bonnie Zimmerman. Michele Lloyd deserves special thanks for providing crucial critical support during this project; she not only read the entire work a number of times but also cowrote chapter 8 and provided input to chapter 6. My thanks go to my friends, among them Alice Adams, Martina Barash, Nikki Barry, Sherry Darling, Cathy Ebelke, Valija Evalds, Kate Johnson, Marcy Knopf, Debra Mandel, Gillian O'Driscoll, Cindy Reuther, Wendy Walters, and my colleagues at Miami University who have helped support me intellectually and emotionally as I wrote this book. Miami University granted me a Summer Research Appointment and an Assigned Research Appointment for one semester, both of

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