Killing Off The Lesbians

Author : Liz Millward
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476668167
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Off the Lesbians written by Liz Millward and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, the film or television lesbian character dies. It seems to happen frequently. But does it really? If so, is it something new? Surveying the fates of numerous characters over decades, this study shows that killing off the lesbian is not a new trend. It is a form of symbolic annihilation and it has had an impact in real life. When more women are working behind the scenes, what appears on-screen also becomes more diverse--yet unhappily the story lines don't necessarily change. From the Xenaverse to GLAAD to the Lexa Pledge, fans have demanded better. As fan fiction migrates from the computer screen to the printed page, authors reanimate the dead and insist on happy endings.

Author : Liz Millward,
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628408
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killing Off the Lesbians written by Liz Millward, and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  So, the film or television lesbian character dies. It seems to happen frequently. But does it really? If so, is it something new? Surveying the fates of numerous characters over decades, this study shows that killing off the lesbian is not a new trend. It is a form of symbolic annihilation and it has had an impact in real life. When more women are working behind the scenes, what appears on-screen also becomes more diverse—yet unhappily the story lines don’t necessarily change. From the Xenaverse to GLAAD to the Lexa Pledge, fans have demanded better. As fan fiction migrates from the computer screen to the printed page, authors reanimate the dead and insist on happy endings.

Author : Simone Reyes
Publisher : Triplicity Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780996899437
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaying the Lesbian Bed Death Dragon written by Simone Reyes and published by Triplicity Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaying the Lesbian Bed Death Dragon (AND Being the Coolest Girlfriend on the Planet While You're At It!) A 30 Day Guide to Re-Claiming Your Lover - is a first of its kind. Whether readers regard the term "Bed Death" as fact or fiction, if the fire is out down below, this practical, insightful and invaluable handbook has a plan to guide lesbians through troubled waters in their relationship by providing the tools needed to get back on track-in love and in the bedroom. Following the simple, fun and sexy steps outlined in each chapter, you and your lover will be well on your way to re-connecting in a healthy, exciting new way.

Author : Sarah Schulman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473568544
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book People in Trouble written by Sarah Schulman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A book of resistance and love, as urgently necessary now as it was thirty years ago' Olivia Laing First published in 1990, discover this blistering novel about a love triangle in New York during the AIDS crisis. The perfect novel to read after bingeing It's A Sin. It was the beginning of the end of the world but not everyone noticed right away. It is the late 1980s. Kate, an ambitious artist, lives in Manhattan with her husband Peter. She's having an affair with Molly, a younger lesbian who works part-time in a movie theater. At one of many funerals during an unbearably hot summer, Molly becomes involved with a guerrilla activist group fighting for people with AIDS. But Kate is more cautious, and Peter is bewildered by the changes he's seeing in his city and, most crucially, in his wife. Soon the trio learn how tragedy warps even the closest relationships, and that anger - and its absence - can make the difference between life and death. 'Strong, nervy and challenging' New York Times

Author : Mairead Sullivan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452964408
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Death written by Mairead Sullivan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In Lesbian Death, Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of lesbian feminism and its usefulness today. Lesbian Death reads how lesbian is conceptualized in relation to death from the 1970s onward to argue that lesbian offers disruptive potential. Lesbian Death examines the rise of lesbian breast cancer activism in San Francisco in conversation with ACT UP, the lesbian separatist manifestos “The C.L.I.T. Papers,” the enduring specter of lesbian bed death, and the weaponization of lesbian identity against trans lives. By situating the lesbian as a border figure between feminist and queer, Lesbian Death offers a fresh perspective on the value of lesbian for both feminist and queer projects, even if her value is her death.

Author : Patricia White
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253213457
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uninvited written by Patricia White and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian characters, stories, and images were barred from onscreen depiction in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s together with all forms of "sex perversion." Through close readings of gothics, ghost films, and maternal melodramas addressed to female audiences, Uninvited argues that viewers are "invited" to make lesbian "inferences." Looking at the lure of some of the great female star personae (in films such as Rebecca, Pinky, The Old Maid, Queen Christina, and The Haunting) and at the visual coding of supporting actresses, it identifies lesbian spectatorial strategies. White's archival research, textual analyses, and novel theoretical insights make an important contribution to film, lesbian, and feminist studies. Book jacket.

Author : Tawni Waters
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481407090
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty of the Broken written by Tawni Waters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if her parents' heavy drinking and her father's abuse--which nearly killed her half-brother, Iggy--were not enough, fifteen-year-old Mara is caught kissing her girlfriend, Xylia, by the preacher's son and becomes terrified that her own life is at risk.

Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429900911
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mockingbird written by Charles J. Shields and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird—the classic that became a touchstone for generations of Americans To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters—Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout—and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. At the center of Shields's lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights as well: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City. Drawing on six hundred interviews and much new information, Mockingbird is the first book ever written about Harper Lee. Highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart, this is an evocative portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.

Author : Kelly Hankin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452905649
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girls in the Back Room written by Kelly Hankin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric LaRocca
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1803361506
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes written by Eric LaRocca and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Amongst the Top 50 Horror Books of All Time" - Cosmopolitan Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novella. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires. A couple isolate themselves on a remote island in an attempt to recover from their teenage son’s death, when a mysterious young man knocks on their door during a storm… And a man confronts his neighbour when he discovers a strange object in his back yard, only to be drawn into an ever-more dangerous game. Three devastating, beautifully written horror stories from one of the genre’s most cutting-edge voices. What have you done today to deserve your eyes?