Can two and a half centuries of female husbands inform (trans)gender history? [0.03%]
两半个多世纪的女夫能为(跨)性别历史提供何种启示?
Susan Clayton
Susan Clayton
This article discusses female husbands as they have been depicted in written narratives from Henry Fielding's use in 1746 up until present day debates. Questions of the cultural issues of gender, transgenderism, and the social construction ...
Alison J Laurie
Alison J Laurie
This foreword considers some central questions regarding lesbians in history, including the limitations of definition, and the complexities of gender and sexual identities in varying historical, cultural, and geographical settings. The auth...
Comparative Study
Journal of lesbian studies. 2010;14(4):283-7. DOI:10.1080/10894161003682489 2010
Margo Hobbs Thompson
Margo Hobbs Thompson
The Great American Lesbian Art Show, which opened at the Woman's Building in Los Angeles in May 1980, was conceived to increase visibility for lesbian artists, and to forge bonds among lesbians across the United States. It comprised a curat...
The Lesbian Art Project [0.03%]
lesbian艺术项目
Jennie Klein
Jennie Klein
Critics and artists influenced by the tenets of queer theory have dismissed much of the artwork made in the 1970s from a lesbian feminist perspective. The result has been very little being known or written about this pioneering work. This a...
The home that the Woman's Building built: Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry construct a visual narrative of the lesbian family [0.03%]
女性建筑之居所——切瑞·高尔克和苏·马伯里构建的同性恋家庭视觉叙事
Anne Swartz
Anne Swartz
Artists Cheri Gaulke and Sue Maberry's feminist activism learned at the Woman's Building, combined with their lesbianism, radicalized them to create ongoing documentation of their family. This article examines how Gaulke has intertwined her...
Ara Osterweil
Ara Osterweil
This article examines three films by legendary experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer that deal with the sick, aging, or dying body: Optic Nerve (1985), Sanctus (1990), and A Horse is Not a Metaphor (2008). By analyzing films that do not exp...
Stefanie Snider
Stefanie Snider
It is difficult to find a visual representation of any fat individual, let alone a queer woman, that is not denigrating and oppressive in conventional media outlets and contemporary visual culture. But even as the negative imagery of fat in...
Ann Vollmann Bible
Ann Vollmann Bible
Drawing on the work of Monique Wittig, this article understands Linda Stein's Knight Series as a lacunary writing communicating both her challenges to come to representation and her creative registration of subjectivity. The argument is gro...
Cassandra L Langer
Cassandra L Langer
Modernism was not a wholesale embracing of Greenberg's definition as abstracting, non-objective, and autonomous. The expatriate U.S. artist and lesbian Romaine Brooks politicized her portraits of females based on a queer combination of the ...
Seeing queerly: looking for lesbian presence and absence in United States visual art, 1890 to 1950 [0.03%]
异视异色:论美国视觉艺术中的女性同性恋形象(1890-1950)
Helen Langa
Helen Langa
The biographies of some U.S. women artists who developed professional careers between 1890 and 1950 reveal clues that suggest lesbian same-sex affections, but their works usually focus on the outside world rather than recognizably "lesbian"...