ISBN:
978-1-4780-2264-0
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 289 Seiten) :
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Illustrationen.
Series Statement:
〈〈A〉〉 camera obscura book
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
791.43/6526643
Keywords:
Geschichte 1970-1980
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Feminism and motion pictures
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Feminism in literature
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Feminism History 20th century
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Feminist theory
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Lesbian feminist theory
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Lesbians in literature
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Science fiction History and criticism
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Film.
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Video.
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Science-Fiction.
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Lesbe.
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Lesbische Orientierung
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Feminismus.
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Film
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Video
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Science-Fiction
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Lesbe
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Lesbische Orientierung
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Feminismus
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Geschichte 1970-1980
Abstract:
In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality. Samer turns to feminist film, video, and science fiction literature, offering a historiographical concept called "lesbian potentiality"-a way of thinking beyond what the lesbian was, in favor of how the lesbian signified what could have come to be. Samer shows how the labor of feminist media workers and fans put lesbian potentiality into movement. They see lesbian potentiality in feminist prison documentaries that theorize the prison industrial complex's racialized and gendered violence and give image to Black feminist love politics and freedom dreaming. Lesbian potentiality also circulates through the alternative spaces created by feminist science fiction and fantasy fanzines like The Witch and the Chameleon and Janus. It was here that author James Tiptree, Jr./Alice B. Sheldon felt free to do gender differently and inspired many others to do so in turn. Throughout, Samer embraces the perpetual reimagination of "lesbian" and the lesbian's former futures for the sake of continued, radical world-building
Note:
In English
DOI:
10.1215/9781478022640
DOI:
10.1515/9781478022640
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