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Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention

Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention

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General SociologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 0415944805
ISBN13: 9780415944809
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 8 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.06
Language: English
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'Donnell, to explore the paradoxes inherent in lesbian celebrity.

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