Probes the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. This book puts forward an argument that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and traces the …
Examines how Cold War homophobia transformed the category of the lesbian and the impact of this new construction of lesbianism on the representation of female sexuality in Hollywood cinema.
In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians appeared indistinguishable from other women. They could mingle "congenially in conventional society…
"This work examines and critiques the prevalence of "performance spaces" for lesbian identities in films, evaluating how queer femaleness is signified on the screen in contemporary cinema. It studies five films, the women perform their femaleness and their queerness both offstag…
New queer cinema: a critical reader
