Peek in the Stacks

For two decades, controversial sexologist John Money corresponded with Jan Dailey, a Los Angeles-based freelance sex columnist. Their relationship began in 1979 when Dailey, who lived near LAX, wrote to Money to inquire about the impact of jet noise on sexual health. They corresponded for two decades......

The work of Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018), despite being mostly in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, very much expresses real world concerns. One of these issues is food: who has it and who doesn’t, the environmental impact of its use and production, and, as is fitting for an author who was the child of two anthropologists, the traditions surrounding its consumption.

In It’s the 1950s—Where’s My Lesbian Bar!? Dr. Marie Cartier addresses how women could find gay bars in the 1940s, through to the 1950s and today, and discusses how finding a lesbian bar has evolved throughout time. The episode explores the legal loopholes gay bars enacted in order to not be accused, what it meant to have the bar raided.....

The representation of women in pulp literature and comics has been a subject of ongoing scrutiny and criticism in popular culture. Pulp magazines and comics have the power to shape our perception of society and the people in it. They are not mere works of imagination but reflect the society that produced them. With that in mind, this blog post aims to compare the female representation on the cover of Weird Tales in the 1930s and Marvel's The Monster of Frankenstein comics in the 1970s and how, unfortunately, it has not significantly changed over time.