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Informationen zum Autor Sara E. Cooper is Associate Professor of Spanish and Multicultural & Gender Studies at California State University! Chico. Cooper edited The Ties That Bind: Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and Film and has published articles in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Studies! Letras femeninas! Ciberletras! Journal of Lesbian Studies! Cuban Studies! Chasqui.! Confluencia: Revista Hisp´anica de Cultura y Literatura! Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression! Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and the Literary Study! Mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XX: Historia y Cultura! Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present! and Women's Issues in North America and the Caribbean. Klappentext Looks at lesbian identity and culture from multiple perspectives! from Australia to India to the Americas. Zusammenfassung This book offers an authentic look at lesbian identity and culture from multiple perspectives, from Australia to India to the Americas. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Looking at Lesbians Internationally: An Introduction Sara E. Cooper 2. Lesbian Weddings and the Revenge of the Clones Jen Bacon 3. "It Feels More Like a Parody": Canadian Queer as Folk Viewers and the Show They Love to Complain About Wendy Peters 4. Screening the Dykes of Oz: Lesbian Representation on Australian Television Rebecca Beirne 5. We Are Family? Spanish Law and Lesbian Normalization in Hospital Central M´onica Calvo and Maite Escudero 6. Pepi! Luci! Bom! and Dark Habits: Lesbian "Families" in the Films of Pedro Almod´ovar Mar´ia DiFrancesco 7. Articulating "Indianness": Woman-Centered Desire and the Parameters for Nationalism Shamira A. Meghani 8. Looking for Asian Butch-Dykes: Exploring Filmic Representations of East Asian Butch-Dykes in Donna Lee's Enter the Mullet Hui-Ling Lin 9. Through the Postcolonial Eyes: Images of Gender and Female Sexuality in Contemporary South Africa Henriette Gunkel 10. Women on Women: Lesbian Identity! Lesbian Community! and Lesbian Comics Adrienne Shaw 11. "Them Ol' Nasty Lesbians"-Queer Memory! Place! and Rural Formations of Lesbian Reta Ugena Whitlock 12. Fad Lesbianism: Exposing Media's Posing Katherine Wirthlin ...
