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In Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s, Rox 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 how the labor of feminist media workers and fans put lesbian potentiality into movement. They see lesbian potentiality in feminist prison documentaries that theorize the prison industrial complex’s racialized and gendered violence and give image to Black feminist love politics and freedom dreaming. Lesbian potentiality also circulates through the alternative spaces created by feminist science fiction and fantasy fanzines like The Witch and the Chameleon and Janus. It was here that author James Tiptree, Jr./Alice B. Sheldon felt free to do gender differently and inspired many others to do so in turn. Throughout, Samer embraces the perpetual reimagination of “lesbian” and the lesbian’s former futures for the sake of continued, radical world-building.
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Dans le panorama du cinéma maghrébin, la place accordée à la représentation des sexualités non normatives est presque inexistante. Les rares exceptions qui s'y présentent sont un témoignage de la persistance de l'engagement pour certain.e.s cinéastes qui sont confronté.e.s à de nombreux obstacles, parfois même à des menaces réelles sur leur vie. C'est le cas de la cinéaste tunisienne Nadia El Fani dont la représentation du lesbianisme et de la bisexualité libère le personnage homosexuel des atavismes dans lesquels il se trouvait pris dans les représentations traditionnelles. Les exemples des personnages de lesbiennes que construit l'auteure ne font pas de concession. Loin des paramètres conventionnels, ils sont des personnages taillés à vif sur les modernités occidentale et tunisienne. En déplaçant l'accent du sentimental et de l'érotisme vers la lucidité et la mise en pratique de la liberté comme droit inaliénable, Nadia El Fani restitue au personnage de la lesbienne un droit de cité. Nous abordons, pour cet article, les films de fiction Pour le plaisir (1990), Fifty, fifty mon amour (1992) et Bedwin Hacker (2002) pour mettre à jour les procédés qui donnent forme à la perspective choisie par Nadia El Fani.
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Ce guide AZ sur les lesbiennes et le lesbiennes au cinéma contient des critiques, des potins, des faits et des commentaires sur plus de 200 films, y compris des films spécifiquement lesbiens tels que "Go Fish" et "Desert Hearts". ainsi que des films avec un personnage ou un thème lesbien, comme « L'heure des enfants » et « La faim ».
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Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led readers to the "artistry" of a work containing lesbianism, emphasizing instead the literary history and historical context of the work rather than the representations of lesbianism. The editor for Colette's The Pure and the Impure, for instance, affirms that Colette has a knowledge of a "strange sisterhood," but assures readers she has never strayed from the "normal." In the groundbreaking A Lure of Knowledge, Judith Roof demonstrates that representations of lesbian sexuality occupy specific locations or positions in the arguments, subject matter, and rhetoric of Western European and American literary criticism. She examines the political context of representations: how lesbian sexuality is used as a signifier an why it appears when and where it does. Roof argues that attempts to depict or explain lesbian sexuality spur anxieties about knowledge and identity. In reaction to and denial of these anxieties, lesbian sexuality is represented in film, literature, theory, and criticism as foreplay, as simulated heterosexuality, as erotic excess, as joking inauthenticity, as artful compromise, or as masculine mask in a specific repertoire of neutralization and evasion. Challenging the heterosexism of film theory and feminist theory, this book analyzes the rhetorical use of lesbian sexuality. Roof explores a range of discourses, from the woks of such authors as Anais Nin, Olga Broumas, Julia Kristeva, Jane Rule, Luce Iriguray, and Sigmund Freud, to films such as Emmanuelle, Desert Hearts, Entre Nous, and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, to professional tennis.