Entertaining lesbians : celebrity, sexuality, and self-invention / / Martha Gever

• Autore: Gever Martha <1947->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.76/63/0973
• Soggetto topico: Gays in popular culture - United States; Lesbianism - United States; Celebrities - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Celebrity Talk, Lesbian Style; 2 Visibility now! The Sexual Politics of Seeing; 3 Celestial Configurations: Aspects of Lesbian Stardom; 4 Going Public: Star Wars in the Liberation Movements; 5 In Retrospect: Legends of Mercedes de Acosta and Company; 6 Popular Mechanics: Advanced Technologies of Lesbian Celebrity; 7 Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Before the rise of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. lang, lesbians were rarely in the limelight and the few that were often did not fare well. Times have changed and today's famous lesbians are popular icons. Entertaining Lesbians charts the rise of lesbians in the public eye, proposing that celebrity has never been a simple matter of opening closet doors, portraying ""positive images,"" or becoming ""role models."" Gever traces the history of lesbians in popular culture during the twentieth century, from Radclyffe Hall and Greta Garbo to Martina Navratilova and Rosie O'Don
• Titolo autorizzato: Entertaining lesbians
• ISBN: 1-136-07426-0; 1-283-84589-X; 1-136-07418-X; 0-203-44650-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823025703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II