By Sara E. Cooper
ISBN-10: 0415845602
ISBN-13: 9780415845601
ISBN-10: 1560237961
ISBN-13: 9781560237969
Lesbian photographs are far and wide those days–cable tv, movie, renowned magazines, advertisements, net and the news–creating wish in women and men alike, promoting advertisement services and products, and stirring up controversy on many degrees. yet do those pictures actually characterize the various identities of women-centered girls around the globe? This book addresses the restricted entry to photographs of various and overseas lesbian identities and reports, that allows you to give you the reader with a extra entire knowing of what it potential to be lesbian in an international context. It investigates how lesbians painting themselves in addition to how they're portrayed via others in numerous parts of pop culture, together with tv, movie, the humanities, net, ads and the news. It positive factors articles on U.S. lesbian cartoonists, Canadian viewer perceptions of lesbians at the cable exhibit Queer as Folk, panoramic appears at lesbians' illustration in Australian and Spanish tv programming, and in-depth explorations of movies by means of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, major Indian movie manufacturers, and self sufficient Chinese-American filmmakers.
This ebook was once released as a different factor of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.
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