Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781560237969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 136 str.

Sara Cooper

Opis

Looks at lesbian identity and culture from multiple perspectives, from Australia to India to the Americas.

Spis treści

1. Looking at Lesbians Internationally: An Introduction  Sara E. Cooper  2. Lesbian Weddings and the Revenge of the Clones  Jen Bacon  3. “It Feels More Like a Parody”: Canadian Queer as Folk Viewers and the Show They Love to Complain About  Wendy Peters  4. Screening the Dykes of Oz: Lesbian Representation on Australian Television  Rebecca Beirne  5. We Are Family? Spanish Law and Lesbian Normalization in Hospital Central  M´onica Calvo and Maite Escudero  6. Pepi, Luci, Bom, and Dark Habits: Lesbian “Families” in the Films of Pedro Almod´ovar  Mar´ia DiFrancesco  7. Articulating “Indianness”: Woman-Centered Desire and the Parameters for Nationalism  Shamira A. Meghani  8. Looking for Asian Butch-Dykes: Exploring Filmic Representations of East Asian Butch-Dykes in Donna Lee’s Enter the Mullet  Hui-Ling Lin  9. Through the Postcolonial Eyes: Images of Gender and Female Sexuality in Contemporary South Africa  Henriette Gunkel  10. Women on Women: Lesbian Identity, Lesbian Community, and Lesbian Comics  Adrienne Shaw  11. “Them Ol’ Nasty Lesbians”—Queer Memory, Place, and Rural Formations of Lesbian  Reta Ugena Whitlock  12. Fad Lesbianism: Exposing Media’s Posing  Katherine Wirthlin

O autorze

Sara E. Cooper is Associate Professor of Spanish and Multicultural & Gender Studies at California State University, Chico. Cooper edited The Ties That Bind: Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and Film and has published articles in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Letras femeninas, Ciberletras, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Cuban Studies, Chasqui., Confluencia: Revista Hisp´anica de Cultura y Literatura, Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression, Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and the Literary Study, Mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XX: Historia y Cultura, Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present, and Women’s Issues in North America and the Caribbean.