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The lesbian menace : ideology, identity, and the representation of lesbian life

Title
The lesbian menace : ideology, identity, and the representation of lesbian life / Sherrie A. Inness.
Author
Inness, Sherrie A.
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description
xi, 256 pages; 24 cm
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.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Lesbians in literature
  • Lesbians > United States > Identity
  • Popular culture > United States
  • Gays in popular culture
  • Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-245) and index.
Contents
1. Who's Afraid of Stephen Gordon?: The Lesbian in the United States Popular Imagination of the 1920s -- 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 Joes in Barbie Land: Recontextualizing the Meaning of Butch in Twentieth-Century Lesbian Culture / Sherrie A. Inness and Michele E. Lloyd.
ISBN
  • 1558490906 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1558490914 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
96053173
OCLC
ocm36178547
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries