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What is She Like: Lesbian Identities from the 1950s to the 1990s: Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Autor Rosa Ainley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2016
In What Is She Like? Rosa Ainley looks in depth at how lesbians see themselves and at the questions of identity that have defined and divided the lesbian community. Covering the period from the 1950s, with its repressive influence on sexuality in general, through so-called sexual liberation in the 1960s, to the freedoms and limitations of (lesbian) feminism in the 1970s, she brings exciting and illuminating perspectives to bear on lesbian lives in the 1990s, when lipstick lesbians were the darlings of the mainstream media. Ainley deconstructs the bizarre popular myths and stereotypes which often surround the twilight world of lesbianism, substituting for them a celebration of the multifarious nature of the lesbian subculture which evolved during the late 20th century. In a series of fascinating interviews interspersed with the text, over 20 women, of varying ages, races and backgrounds, talk frankly about their lives and lifestyles as lesbians, focusing on their own identity in terms of politics, leisure pursuits, fashion and affiliations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474292474
ISBN-10: 147429247X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Draws on the wealth of the backlists of The Athlone Press, Cassell and Continuum

Notă biografică

Rosa Ainley is a writer and text-based artist. Recent work includes Building 519, a text/audio piece about the Pfizer pharmaceutical complex outside Sandwich in Kent, commissioned for Whitstable Biennale 2014; and 'While You're Waiting' on RSHP's Cancer Centre at Guy's hospital, London (2015). She is a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, in Architecture, exploring writing as a means of cultural recovery and reuse of buildings.

Cuprins

1. Introduction2. History and Sexology: Definitions, Legislation and Popular Notions3. Sisterhood? Lesbians, Politics and Feminism4. Sexuality and Other Identities: Race, Class, Religion, Weekend Lesbians, Going Straight5. Labelling Ourselves: Queergirls, Companion Lovers and Diesel Dykes6. What Do SM Dykes Wear to Work? Fashion and Behaviour7. Lesbian Looks: Butch, Femme, Kiki8. Work and Leisure: Living the Life and Making a Living9. Lust Horizons: Romantic Friendships to Sexual OutlawsAppendix: Questions for InterviewsBibliographyIndex