Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture

by Barbara Jane Brickman

Book Overview

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. For an unsettled and retrenching postwar America, these startling figures betrayed the failure of promised consensus and appeasing conformity. They could...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197882825X
• ISBN13: 9781978828254
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher