Lesbian Images In International Popular Culture

Author : Sara E. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317992121
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture written by Sara E. Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian images are everywhere these days–cable television, film, popular magazines, advertising, Internet and the news–creating desire in men and women alike, selling commercial products and services, and stirring up controversy on many levels. But do these images truly represent the diverse identities of women-centered women worldwide? This book addresses the limited access to images of diverse and international lesbian identities and experiences, in order to provide the reader with a more complete understanding of what it means to be lesbian in a global context. It investigates how lesbians portray themselves as well as how they are portrayed by others in several areas of popular culture, including television, film, the arts, Internet, advertising and the news. It features articles on U.S. lesbian cartoonists, Canadian viewer perceptions of lesbians on the cable show Queer as Folk, panoramic looks at lesbians' representation in Australian and Spanish television programming, and in-depth explorations of films by Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, leading Indian film producers, and independent Chinese-American filmmakers. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.

Author : Susan Driver
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820479361
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Girls and Popular Culture written by Susan Driver and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook

Author : R. Beirne
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230615015
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium written by R. Beirne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up such issues as mainstreaming, the male gaze, and female masculinity, this book puts forward provocative readings of little explored texts and offers new insights into the contemporary representation of lesbians.

Author : Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lesbian Menace written by Sherrie A. Inness and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Electroshock. Hysterectomy. Lobotomy. These are only three of the many "cures" to which lesbians have been subjected in this century. How does a society develop such a profound aversion to a particular minority? In what ways do images in the popular media perpetuate cultural stereotypes about lesbians, and to what extent have lesbians been able to subvert and revise those images? This book addresses these and other questions by examining how lesbianism has been represented in American popular culture in the twentieth century and how conflicting ideologies have shaped lesbian experiences and identity." --Book Jacket.

Author : Martha Gever
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136074260
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Lesbians written by Martha Gever and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the rise of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. lang, lesbians were rarely in the limelight and the few that were often did not fare well. Times have changed and today's famous lesbians are popular icons. Entertaining Lesbians charts the rise of lesbians in the public eye, proposing that celebrity has never been a simple matter of opening closet doors, portraying "positive images," or becoming "role models." Gever traces the history of lesbians in popular culture during the twentieth century, from Radclyffe Hall and Greta Garbo to Martina Navratilova and Rosie O'Donnell, to explore the paradoxes inherent in lesbian celebrity.

Author : Diane Hamer
Publisher : Pandora Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Good, the Bad and the Gorgeous written by Diane Hamer and published by Pandora Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 15 essays from the United States, Britain, and Australia on the portrayal of lesbians in the media including television, film, pop music, and popular magazines.

Author : Bonnie Zimmerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113678750X
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures written by Bonnie Zimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area that now occupies a critical place in many fields of academic endeavours. It covers a long history and a dynamic and ever changing present, while opening up the academic profession to new scholarship and new ways of thinking. A groundbreaking new approach While gays and lesbians have shared many aspects of life, their histories and cultures developed in profoundly different ways. To reflect this crucial fact, the encyclopedia has been prepared in two separate volumes assuring that both histories receive full, unbiased attention and that a broad range of human experience is covered. Written for and by a wide range of people Intended as a reference for students and scholars in all fields, as well as for the general public, the encyclopedia is written in user-friendly language. At the same time it maintains a high level of scholarship that incorporates both passion and objectivity. It is written by some of the most famous names in the field, as well as new scholars, whose research continues to advance gender studies into the future.

Author : Barbara Jane Brickman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978828276
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering Sappho! written by Barbara Jane Brickman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ever-expanding and panicked Wonder Woman lurches through a city skyline begging Steve to stop her. A twisted queen of sorority row crashes her convertible trying to escape her queer shame. A suave butch emcee introduces the sequined and feathered stars of the era’s most celebrated drag revue. For an unsettled and retrenching postwar America, these startling figures betrayed the failure of promised consensus and appeasing conformity. They could also be cruel, painful, and disciplinary jokes. It turns out that an obsession with managing gender and female sexuality after the war would hardly contain them. On the contrary, it spread their campy manifestations throughout mainstream culture. Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! traces a larger-than-life lesbian menace across midcentury media forms to propose five prototypical queer icons—the sicko, the monster, the spinster, the Amazon, and the rebel. On the pages of comics and sensational pulp fiction and the dramas of television and drive-in movies, Barbara Jane Brickman discovers evidence not just of campy sexual deviants but of troubling female performers, whose failures could be epic but whose subversive potential could inspire. Supplemental images of interest related to this title: George and Lomas; Connie Minerva; Cat On Hot Tin; and Beulah and Oriole.

Author : Kathleen Martindale
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432891
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Un/Popular Culture written by Kathleen Martindale and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a lucidly written analysis of the complex and provocative terrain of lesbian literary and cultural theory.

Author : Laura Doan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231110073
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashioning Sapphism written by Laura Doan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of early 20th century social conditions and cultural trends in Britain that constructed the popular image of the "modern lesbian"