Alien/ating lesbianism
Ugly sex and postpunk feminist dystopia inLiquid Sky
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5145113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yetta Howard (University of Southern California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-61 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2011.563036 |
| OpenAlex | W2008965513 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This article uses Liquid Sky to consider the possibilities of feminist reorientations outside of formal and political orthodoxies and suggests that such disengagements from the dominant are alienated from the utopian rather than re-imagined as transgressive modes of utopian resistance. These disengagements are theorized as a postpunk feminist dystopia: that is, a de-emancipatory system of gendered and aesthetic practices that spatio-sonically shapes queer female sexuality as extrinsic to social and sexual ideals. This dystopia specifically frames the lesbian subject as a bodily terrain of self-estrangement, and names the film's network of alienated corporeal, subcultural, and sonic space. Feminist dystopia ultimately describes female empowerment's precarious position in a sexual and sonic landscape of non-normativity and offers a way to visualize oppositional practices that do not readily correspond to liberation
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dystopia · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Literature · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Transgressive · Utopia · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |