Entertaining Lesbians : Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention
by
Martha Gever
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0415944791
ISBN-13
9780415944793
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 8th, 2003
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
544 grams
Product Classification:
Popular cultureGay & Lesbian studiesLesbian studies
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Charting the rise of lesbian celebrity, Martha Gever asks whether such exposure is good for lesbians or hurts their cause. Stars from Ellen DeGeneres to Melissa Etheridge to Chastity Bono send a message that being out is now acceptable, but have they created new stereotypes along the way?
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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