Why are there no lesbian advertisements

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4888949
AutoresAnnamari Vänskä (0000-0002-7404-9080, University of Helsinki, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen6
Número1
Páginas67-85
Fecha de publicación2005-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700105046976
OpenAlexW1979074734
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas38

This article addresses the issue of femme gaze and desire in relation to a range of heterosexual fashion advertisements from the British edition of the mainstream fashion magazine Vogue. It considers the lasting legacy of heterosexual feminist and lesbian feminist constructions of the gazing subject, particularly in terms of masculinity, trans-sex identification and masquerading. Both of these fields of knowledge have failed to recognize feminine and femme-inine viewing subjects and to include them in the field of visibility independently, without recourse to masculinity. The article considers possibilities for resistant femme visibility, identification, and desire. It argues through the analysis of fashion images that the concepts of femme-nity and femme-nine are useful in criticizing prevailing regulatory norms of perception and normative expectations on gender, as well as in denaturalizing the assumed relationship between the gaze, gender, sexuality, and desire

Aesthetics · Art · Femininity · Gaze · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Mainstream · Masculinity · Normative · Perception · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Visibility · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology