Tantalizing Glimpses of Stolen Glances
Lesbians Take Photographs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Fraser, Jean L Fraser, Tessa Boffin |
| Year | 1991 |
| Issue | 38 |
| Pages | 20 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1395375 |
| OpenAlex | W4235755829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
In the summer of 1988, while sitting in a car on the Walworth Road, the idea for our book about lesbian representation by lesbian photographers and writers was conceived. Lesbians and gay men in the UK were fresh from the struggle against Section 28 of the Local Government Act, disappointed that we had not succeeded in preventing it passing into law, yet exhilarated by the increased sense of lesbian and gay community which those struggles had engendered. We were aware of the irony that, despite its attempts to repress us, Section 28 had given us more visibility in the mainstream media than ever before. We wanted our work to be visible too. We had seen exciting photographic work by lesbians both here and in North America, and we knew there must be more, but this work existed in isolated contexts; we wanted to make it accessible to a wider audience of lesbians and the 'independent' photography sector. We also knew that there were many parallels between the US and the UK in relation to right-wing promotion of traditional family values, repression of diversity and a growing climate of censorship. Section 28 legislates against 'the promotion of homosexuality'; we felt that promotion was precisely what was needed. Our imagination was caught by the inventiveness of lesbian photographers who had 'stolen' and inverted the meanings of mainstream, heterosexual imagery; we therefore set out to produce a book which addressed the representation of lesbianism and lesbian identities in this way. Lesbianism exists in a complex relation to many other identities; concerns of sexuality intersect with those of race, class and the body, and our contributors have aimed to engage with these issues. In our selection procedure, rather than attempting to naturalize a
Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Human sexuality · Photography · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Photography and Visual Culture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2010 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |