Cold War Femme

Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema

Автор: Robert J. Corber

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Издател: Duke University Press

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In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stea...

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Автор

Robert J. Corber

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2011

страници

240

EAN

9780822349280

ISBN

0822349280

Enbook ID

04939309

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

513

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In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians appeared indistinguishable from other women. They could mingle "congenially in conventional society." Some were popular sex symbols; some were married to unsuspecting husbands. Robert J. Corber contends that The Grapevine exemplified a homophobic Cold War discourse that portrayed the femme as an invisible threat to the nation. Underlying this panic was the widespread fear that college-educated women would reject marriage and motherhood as aspirations, weakening the American family and compromising the nation's ability to defeat totalitarianism. Corber argues that Cold War homophobia transformed ideas about lesbianism in the United States. In the early twentieth century, homophobic discourse had focused on gender identity: the lesbian was a masculine woman. During the Cold War, the lesbian was reconceived as a woman attracted to other women. Corber develops his argument by analyzing representations of lesbianism in Hollywood movies of the 1950s and 1960s, and in the careers of some of the era's biggest female stars. He examines treatments of the femme in All about Eve, The Children's Hour, and Marnie, and he explores the impact of Cold War homophobia on the careers of Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, and Doris Day.

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