5/22/2023 0 Comments Women's Barracks by Tereska Torrès![]() ![]() Their problems, their temptations, their fights and failures are those faced by all women who are forced to live together without normal emotional outlets. ![]() Many of those girls, utterly innocent and inexperienced, met other women who had lived every type of experience. ‘This is the story of what happens when scores of young girls live intimately together in a French military barracks. On the cover of the 1962 edition from Consul Books, it follows the standard sensationalised cover art and suggestive descriptions of the novels content: as part of a series which features pulp, noir and mystery novels by women of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, the novel was republished by the Feminist Press for their ‘Femme Fatale’ series. Women’s Barracks was published by Gold Medal Books and sold over four million copies in the USA, despite the book being banned for some time, due to its lesbian content. ![]() ![]() This novel was seen as the birth of the lesbian themed publishing phenomenon that took place in America during the fifties and earlier sixties. This was a fictionalised version of Torres’ own time in the services and was accused of being scandalous for its portrayal of the women’s sexual encounters, both with men and women. 67 Women’s Barracks was originally published in 1950 and was an account of life in London for a group of female Free French Army soldiers. ![]()
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