The Twig Benders

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1969
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Sex role reversal dystopia set in the Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the boys are “required to be naked at all times” and “The Instructors, all women, are expected to use the boys sexually, as such experience counts as part of the boy’s training for the Masculine Role” (1).

Pagination
6 pp.
Published Date

[1969?]

Publisher
The Feminists
Place Published
New Work
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[1969?] [Holst] Wilda. The Twig Benders. By Wilda Chase [pseud. New York: The Feminists. 6 pp. Rpt. in Everywoman 1.3 (June 19, 1970), 5, 11 with an introduction by Varda One, “Woman as Masochist, Man as Sadist” (1); and under the author’s name in The SCUM Manifesto and The Twig Benders. (Np: Gynarchy Poche, [2017?]), 67-78 with a note (7) on the author by Aline d’Arbrant (1952-2015). PSt 

Sex role reversal dystopia set in the Eastgate Finishing School for Boys where the boys are “required to be naked at all times” and “The Instructors, all women, are expected to use the boys sexually, as such experience counts as part of the boy’s training for the Masculine Role” (1). The author committed suicide in the mid-1970s.

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Rpt. in Everywoman 1.3 (June 19, 1970), 5, 11 with an introduction by Varda One, “Woman as Masochist, Man as Sadist” (1)); and under the author’s name in The SCUM Manifesto and The Twig Benders. (Np: Gynarchy Poche, [2017?]), 67-78 with a note (7) on the author by Aline d’Arbrant (1952-2015). 

Pseudonym

Wilda Chase [pseud.]

 

Author Note

The female author committed suicide in the mid-1970s

 

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