{"product_id":"suffering-sappho-2","title":"Suffering Sappho!","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eAn 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 also be cruel, painful, and disciplinary jokes. It turns out that an obsession with managing gender and female sexuality after the war would hardly contain them. On the contrary, it spread their campy manifestations throughout mainstream culture.\u003cbr\u003e\n \u003cbr\u003e\nOffering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, \u003ci\u003eSuffering Sappho!\u003c\/i\u003e traces a larger-than-life lesbian menace across midcentury media forms to propose five prototypical queer icons—the sicko, the monster, the spinster, the Amazon, and the rebel. On the pages of comics and sensational pulp fiction and the dramas of television and drive-in movies, Barbara Jane Brickman discovers evidence not just of campy sexual deviants but of troubling female performers, whose failures could be epic but whose subversive potential could inspire.\u003cbr\u003e\nSupplemental images of interest related to this title: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/19152308\/Brickman_Suffering_Sappho_Image8_George_and_Lomas.jpg\"\u003eGeorge and Lomas\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/19152310\/Brickman_Suffering_Sappho_Image9_Connie_Minerva.jpg\"\u003eConnie Minerva\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/19152310\/Brickman_Suffering_Sappho_Image11_Cat_On_Hot_Tin.jpg\"\u003eCat On Hot Tin\u003c\/a\u003e; and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/19152312\/Brickman_Suffering_Sappho_Image17_Beulah_and_Oriole.jpg\"\u003eBeulah and Oriole\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Barbara Jane Brickman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575230365878,"sku":"9781978828292","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781978828292_d2bf18b7-ab37-4f03-a275-c1aa73bc1384.jpg?v=1727264731","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/suffering-sappho-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}