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Entertaining Lesbians

Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention
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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 Biography:

Martha Gever is Assistant Professor of Communication at Florida Atlantic University/Broward. Her books include: Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film andVideo and Out There: Marginalization and ContemporaryCultures. She is the former editor of The IndependentFilm and Video Monthly.
Release date NZ
September 8th, 2003
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Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Pages
256
Dimensions
152x229x19
ISBN-13
9780415944809
Product ID
1668876

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