I've seen it in plenty of SF, but they may not be particularly recent editions.
The "lost kingdom of the nymphomaniac Amazons" is making me want to throw Herland at them - in which three men think they have stumbled over exactly that, and get a rude awakening. Now I look back at it, it really does fit a lot of (bad) stereotypes about lesbians: they're tranquilly uninterested in sex, wear Sensible Clothing, vegetarian, and keep cats. It was published in 1931, I think? I wonder how long that stereotype has been around (I'd guess second-wave feminism), and whether Herland influenced it at all?
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Date: 2009-06-07 10:48 am (UTC)The "lost kingdom of the nymphomaniac Amazons" is making me want to throw Herland at them - in which three men think they have stumbled over exactly that, and get a rude awakening. Now I look back at it, it really does fit a lot of (bad) stereotypes about lesbians: they're tranquilly uninterested in sex, wear Sensible Clothing, vegetarian, and keep cats. It was published in 1931, I think? I wonder how long that stereotype has been around (I'd guess second-wave feminism), and whether Herland influenced it at all?