Lesbian Potentiality & Feminist Media in the 1970s

Jed Samer explores how 1970s feminists took up the figure of the lesbian in broad attempts to reimagine gender and sexuality by studying feminist film, video, and science fiction literature.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Living in the Lesbian's Former Future: A Media Historiography of Imagination for When the Present Is Past  1
1. Feminist Media in Movement: The National Women's Film Circuit and International Videoletters  39
2. Producing Freedom: 1970s Feminist Documentary and Women's Prison Activism  90
3. Raising Fannish Consciousness: The Formation of Feminist Science Fiction Fandom  138
4. Tip/Alli: Cutting a Transfeminist Genealogy of Siblinghood  179
Epilogue. Potentiality Born in Flames  216
Notes  231
Bibliography  267
Index  281

About the author

Jed Samer is Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University and editor of the “Transgender Media” special issue of Spectator.

Product details

• Authors: Jed Samer, Rox Samer
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781478015383
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-1538-3
• No. of pages: 289
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Camera Obscura Book
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries