Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940

Victoria A. Brownworth

With the onset of the 20th Century, psychoanalysis lifted the curtain on alternative sexuality. Bringing sex out of the closet added a different dimension to erotic writing and eroticism itself. The advent of the roaring 20’s changed the sexual landscape of lesbian erotica. The Golden Age opens the door to women’s independence: Women choose to live as independently as men, including sexuality. It is an era rife with excitement and mystery and conflict,the volatility reflected between these covers-and between the covers of the women writing here about their sensual desires for other women.

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Product Description

Lesbian erotica of the 1920s through the 1940s had a bold new cast to it. Unlike the tender and affectionate eroticism of the Victorian era with its naughty schoolgirls, convent antics and ladies-in-waiting, these 20th Century tales brought verisimilitude and fantasy together. While Radclyffe Hall was being prosecuted for obscenity for her depiction of ‘sapphics’ and ‘inverts’ in the classic lesbian novel *The Well of Loneliness,* her friend Natalie Barney was riding naked through the streets of Paris on horseback with her lover, the poet Renee Vivienne and Anais Nin were penning lurid and lustful tales of very bad girls while yearning for Henry Miller’s sensual wife, June.

About the Author

Victoria A. Brownworth is the author of nine books, including the award-winning *Too Queer: Essays from a Radical Life* and editor of 14, including the award-winning *Night Bites: VampireTales of Blood and Lust. * A syndicated columnist, her work has appeared in numerous mainstream, queer and feminist publications, including the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Village Voice, the Advocate, OUT and Curve. Her erotic writing has appeared regularly in anthologies and magazines, and she is a former contributing writer to the lesbian sex magazines, *On Our Backs* and *Bad Attitude.* She has published several erotica collections, including most recently, *Bed: New Lesbian Erotica.* She also publishes gay male porn under a psuedonym. She teaches writing and film at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where she added two new courses to the literary curriculum: Writing Below the Belt and Smut. She has also taught safe-sex education classes as well as classes on S/M and B/D for various lesbian and bisexual venues. She lives in Philadelphia.

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ISBN	977431142
Genre	Anthology – Fiction; Erotica
Publication Date	Jan-07
Publisher	Magic Carpet Books Inc.
Editor	Victoria A. Brownworth
Format	Trade Paperback
No. of Pages	310
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Editor	Victoria A. Brownworth
BookID	4923

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Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940 by Victoria A. Brownworth