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The lesbian menace : ideology, identity, and the representation of lesbian life / Sherrie A. Inness.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585083681
  • 9780585083681
  • 9781558490901
  • 1558490906
  • 1122054815
  • 9781122054812
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Lesbian menace.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/9206643 21
LOC classification:
  • PS228.L47 I56 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 17.89
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Who's Afraid of Stephen Gordon?: The Lesbian in the United States Popular Imagination of the 1920's -- 2. "Malevolent, neurotic, and tainted": The Lesbian Menace in Popular Women's College Fiction -- 3. "They're here, they're flouncy, don't worry about them": Depicting Lesbians in Popular Women's Magazines, 1965-1995 -- 4. Is Nancy Drew Queer?: Popular Reading Strategies for the Lesbian Reader -- 5. "Candy-coated cyanide": Children's Books and Lesbian Images -- 6. Lost in Space: Queer Geography and the Politics of Location -- 7. To Pass or Not to Pass: Thoughts on Passing and Lesbian Identities -- 8. GI Joe's in Barbie Land: Recontextualizing the Meaning of Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture / Sherrie A. Inness and Michele E. Lloyd.
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Summary: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-245) and index.

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"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."--Jacket.

1. Who's Afraid of Stephen Gordon?: The Lesbian in the United States Popular Imagination of the 1920's -- 2. "Malevolent, neurotic, and tainted": The Lesbian Menace in Popular Women's College Fiction -- 3. "They're here, they're flouncy, don't worry about them": Depicting Lesbians in Popular Women's Magazines, 1965-1995 -- 4. Is Nancy Drew Queer?: Popular Reading Strategies for the Lesbian Reader -- 5. "Candy-coated cyanide": Children's Books and Lesbian Images -- 6. Lost in Space: Queer Geography and the Politics of Location -- 7. To Pass or Not to Pass: Thoughts on Passing and Lesbian Identities -- 8. GI Joe's in Barbie Land: Recontextualizing the Meaning of Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture / Sherrie A. Inness and Michele E. Lloyd.

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