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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.
Read more. . .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.....
Read more. . .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.
Read more. . .“Gender, Sex, and the Cosmos in the Horror Pulps: From Weird Tales Magazine to Christopher Pike’s 90s Horror Novels” is for horror fans, young and old, who have interests in gender and sexuality and Gothic terror and horror. Associate Professor of English Dr. Colleen Tripp at California State University at Northridge (CSUN) is joined by script writer....
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