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Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema

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Description for Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema Paperback. Interpretations of Hollywood films of the 1950s and 1960s demonstrate how Cold War homophobia focused on the femme as the lesbian who posed the greatest threat to the nation. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; APF; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822349471
SKU
V9780822349471
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About Robert J. Corber
Robert J. Corber is Professor and Director of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program at Trinity College. He is the author of Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity and In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America, both also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema
“The Alfred Kinsey of film studies, Robert J. Corber has followed up his authoritative work on Cold War representations of male homosexuality with a companion volume on constructions of lesbianism in films of the period. Shedding new light on canonical films and iconic stars—All about Eve and Marnie, Bette Davis and Doris Day—Cold War Femme tracks how a shift in ... Read more

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