{"product_id":"entertaining-lesbians-celebrity-sexuality-and-selfinvention-9780415944809","title":"Entertaining Lesbians Celebrity Sexuality and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore 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. \u003cem\u003eEntertaining Lesbians\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...a thoughtful, wide-ranging discussion of lesbians in 20th-century pop culture that touches on the history of photography, tabloid journalism, theories of mass culture, and the politics of coming out, among other subjects.\" -- \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remember when lesbians used to hide their sexuality, way before Rosie and kd lang? A canny history and critique of the rise of lesbian celebrity.\" -- Carlin Romano, \u003cem\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eEntertaining Lesbians\u003c\/em\u003e, noted critic and media activist Martha Gever takes on two of the most enduring and problematic assumptions of lesbian culture: visibility and coming out. Through rich historical detail and sustained archival research, Gever explores the possibilities and the contradictions of lesbian celebrity in a study that will be required reading for anyone interested in lesbians and popular culture.\" -- -Judith Mayne, author of \u003cem\u003eFramed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eCulture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With uncommon clarity, voluminous research, and a great instinct for what's important, Martha Gever makes sense of the high points of lesbian visibility. A landmark study: literature, television, and popular culture may never be the same.\" -- -B. Ruby Rich , author, \u003cem\u003eChick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMovement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A thoroughly original and timely study, one that will delight and instruct anyone interested in figuring out how sexuality, politics and culture come to define one another in our times.\" -- -Jeff Nunokawa, author of \u003cem\u003eTame\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePassions of Wilde: The Styles of Manageable Desire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gever examines how celebrity (and LCs in particular) affects political identity and influences social change. The book also includes a few juicy tidbits about Garbo, Martina, and others.\" -- \u003cem\u003eOut\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Celebrity talk, lesbian style 2. Visibility now!: The sexual politics of seeing 3. Celestial configurations: Aspects of lesbian stardom 4. Going public: Star wars in the liberation movements 5. In retrospect: Legends of Mercedes de Acosta and company 6. Popular mechanics: Advanced technologies of lesbian celebrity 7. Afterword Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402158973271,"sku":"9780415944809","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415944809.jpg?v=1730479564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/entertaining-lesbians-celebrity-sexuality-and-selfinvention-9780415944809","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}