Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s

by Rox Samer and Jed Samer

Book Overview

In Lesbian Potentiality and 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. Samer turns to feminist film, video, and science fiction literature, offering a historiographical concept called "lesbian potentiality"--a way of thinking beyond what the lesbian was, in favor of how the lesbian signified what could have come to be. Samer shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147801802X
• ISBN13: 9781478018025
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"