These same-sex relationships have been represented within American colleges of lesbian pulp fiction novels, the highschool/University settings of Ariel Schrag’s graphic novels and Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out for, and within the “S relationships” of Japan’s 1900s “school girl culture” that heavily influenced the initial Japanese Yuri Mangas. Why is this? Although I do not wish to generalise, these settings have curiously become a lesbian space for various cultural, literary representations of lesbian relationships. What is it about English and Drama Professors in lesbian fiction? Within the fictional legacy of lesbianism, many stories revolve around the notion of becoming, often within an educational, institutionalised setting.
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