Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s

Jed Samer

Published by Duke University Press 2022

Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s

Jed Samer

In the series A Camera Obscura Book

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478022640

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About this book

Jed Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality by studying feminist film, video, and science fiction literature.

Author / Editor information

Jed Samer is Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University and editor of the “Transgender Media” special issue of Spectator.

Reviews

“Jed Samer reworks the genealogy of contemporary feminist, queer, and trans cultural politics in this fascinating foray into the futures envisioned by speculative lesbian literature and media half a century ago. It’s brilliant, generative, and timely.”

-- Susan Stryker, Executive Editor, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

“Feminist documentary and science fiction: they nourish so many of our lives in tandem, but we so often study them separately. By merging the perspectives of the scholar, maker, and fan while traversing spaces from the archive to the convention hall and refining ideas as elegant as their gorgeous prose, Jed Samer is the perfect person to conduct this tour of the distinctive yet deeply overlapping legacies of these genres and the people who made them possible.”

-- Nick Davis, author of The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema

“Samer’s excellent book . . . is relevant to contemporary 21C debates on who may and who may not claim to be a lesbian but, more significantly, the range of its scope, imagination, and ambition far exceeds the narrow and prescriptive terms in which such debates are framed by the British media."

-- Nick Hubble Prospective Cultures

"Samer’s work creates new ground for feminist sf scholarship, deeply contextualizing the importance of lesbian feminist fannish productions in the 1970s. . . . A valuable source for those interested in exploring feminist fan histories. It would also be suitable in courses exploring feminist sf, gender, and sexuality studies."

-- Kathryn Heffner Science Fiction Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Living in the lesbian’s former future: a media historiography of imagination for when the present is past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Feminist media in movement. The national women’s film circuit & international videoletters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
2 Producing freedom 1970s feminist documentary & women’s prison activism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
3 Raising fannish consciousness. The formation of feminist science fiction fandom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
4 Tip/alli Cutting a transfeminist genealogy of siblinghood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Epilogue. Potentiality born in flames Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304

eBook

Published: February 4, 2022
ISBN: 9781478022640