Antedating of "Chick Lit"

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 18, 2013, at 10:42 PM, Benjamin Torbert wrote:

> When does [the pejorative] "clit Lit" come from?  I remember my
> [conservative, misogynist] father using that phrase at least that early?
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> BT'

And then there's "cliterati" for its practitioners, or maybe a broader (npi) reference as in

• 2004, Laura Flanders, The W effect: Bush's war on women, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, page 248:
Its first meeting, held at Eve Ensler's apartment, was a who's who, as Cuomo puts it, of "the New York cliterati," including Urvashi Vaid, Laura Flanders, Sarah Schulman and other notables.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cliterati

[I assume the Cuomo in question is neither the governor nor his father the former governor.]

LH
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> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:
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>> The OED's first citation for "chick lit" is dated 1993.  According to
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>> edia, it appears five years earlier in this book:
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>> Don M. Betterton, Alma mater: unusual stories and little-known facts from
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>> merica's college campuses, Peterson's Guides, Princeton, N.J. (1988); p.
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