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Lesbians in Television and Text After the Millennium
By:Rebecca Beirne
Published on 2008-09-15 by Palgrave MacMillan

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Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium explores popular contemporary texts featuring lesbian characters, including The L Word, Queer as Folk, Dykes to Watch Out For, and various pornographic videos. Beirne places these works in the context of political and cultural trends of the post-millennial period and compares them to cultural representations of lesbians from the past. Taking up such issues as mainstreaming, feminine lesbians, the male gaze, female masculinity, and sexual practice, this book puts forward provocative readings of texts that have been little explored and offers new insights into the depiction of lesbians in popular culture.

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Colm Tóibíd, this award-winning artice writer of The particular Graspand Brooklyn, spins his or her care at the complex marriages regarding fathers plus sons—directly any worries concerned with the literary giants Oscar Wilde, Adam Joyce, W.B. Yeats, as well as their very own fathers. Wilde loathed his father, while recognized that they were a lot alike. Joyce's gregarious father drove chisel her fuesen as a result of Ireland by reason of this volatile temperament and also drinking. Despite the fact that Yeats's biological father, a good plumber, appeared to be seemingly a marvelous conversationalist whose chattering was alot more slick compared to a pictures the guy produced. Those popular adult males plus the daddies whom given a hand to condition all of them can come with your life within Tóibín's retelling, similar to Dublin's brilliant inhabitants.

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