Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out for - Softcover

Bechdel, Alison

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9781563410864: Hot, Throbbing Dykes to Watch Out for

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ISBN 10: 1563410869 ISBN 13: 9781563410864

Publisher: Firebrand Books, 1997

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Throbbing Dykes To Watch Out For is Alison Bechdel's seventh sensuous cartoon collection, her libidinous commentary on the tsunami of lesbian erotica surging through the culture.
While M - our lesbian-feminist everywoman - looks on askance, sexy babe Lois and postmodern femme-top Sydney spearhead the thrust into sex toys and higher sales at Madwimmin Books.
In these days of girls writing erotica about boys, and boys writing erotica about girls (so what's new?), Alison Bechdel exposes her familiar cast of characters carnal mores.

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Review

Will Alison Bechdel ever put a foot wrong? Will she ever lose her sense of humor about the goofy vicissitudes of the lesbian community? If this seventh book of her serial cartoon collection about Mo, the feminist bookseller everywoman and her cohorts, is any indication, I'd have to say no. Bechdel here sets her wry and wonderful sights on the explosion of lesbian erotica.

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Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For resembles Armistead Maupin's prose-only serial Tales of the City, but Bechdel's all-lesbian main cast affords gays an in-group pleasure that Maupin's all-preferences cast doesn't, and her mock-soap-operatics are funnier and smarter than Maupin's. In the seventh Dykes collection, lesbian mom Toni and her lover Clarice move Clarice's suit to become legal coparent forward; a young lesbian-deconstructionist professor comes to town and antagonizes-attracts gay-left purist Mo; African American Ph.D. candidate Ginger finally writes that dissertation; and the strip's principal setting, Madwimmin Books, weathers financial crisis and an erotica-oriented fund-raiser that mortifies owner Jezanna no end ("`I'll open a bookstore' I thought. `The life of the mind,' I thought"). As usual, the dialogue crackles with intelligence, insight, and a humane wit that Bechdel's wry draftsmanship matches. True, it probably demands an "R" rating, but any horse frightened by these dykes' doings is a pansy of a pony, indeed. Ray Olson

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