Legions of Lesbos by Marianna Karr and Sylvia Melton, A Non-Fiction Reflection on Sapphic Love, 1967

Marianna Karr

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Karr, Marianna and Melton, Sylvia. Legions of Lesbos. Atlanta: M. G. Thevis, 1967. 155 pages. Approx. 5" x 8". Part personal prose, part psychological study, and part Socratic discussion, this innovative book defies genre and attempts to dispel popular stereotypes about women who love women. Marianna Karr and Sylvia Melton write, both together and separately, about their experiences discovering and exploring lesbian sexuality. The frank and honest way in which Karr and Melton write about sex and love make Legions of Lesbos a veritable handbook of Sapphic relationships of the 50s and 60s. Distinctive bright red covers featuring prints of a female figure in a Zebra-striped outline. Back cover reads "Society calls it perversion; the women call it love.... The love of woman for woman, the temptation and desires, the heart-break and loneliness, has never been covered in such depth. From ancient Lesbos to today's suburbia, women in legions have banded together, scorning or yielding to it reluctantly, gratifying their yearning through the feel of bodies like their own-pursued by the well of loneliness, guilt-ridden, frustrated, torn, and seared by the hell-like conflict of their own souls. And the legions grow in number, year by year...." Overall very good condition. A unique documentation of lesbian relationships in the 1960s.

Item #20541

Price: $225.00