- 316 pages
- English
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About this book
In this series of provocative essays on culture, art, and film, former Screen editor Mandy Merck explores the paradoxes of sexual representation. Whether writing on romantic fiction or hardcore pornography, on robots or sex goddesses, Radclyffe Hall or the Marquis de Sade, she finds the perversions and deviances. Illustrated.
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Subtopic
LGBT StudiesIndex
Social Sciencesindex
Abe, Kobo, 200-1
Adams, Parveen, 38, 237—9, 241-66
Address to Soldiers, 204
Aeschylus, 154
Aethiopis, 127—8
AIDS:
in gay pornography, 227-8
in romantic fiction, 51-5
Akerman, Chantal, 175
Aldrich, Robert, 206
Aleksander, Tsar, 202
Alexander, Martha, 255
Alexander the Great, 149
All Worlds Video, 224
Amazon myth, 1-3, 121-61
Athenian patriarchy, 149-56
early sources, 124—8
feminism and, 121—4
Heracles theme, 128-35
Parthenon Amazonomachies, 146-9
Theseus variant, 135-45
Amy!, 183-5, 187
And God Created Woman, 79—80, 84
Andreyevna, Sofya, 202
androids, 178-90
Another Way, 162
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 6
Aristophanes, 141
Aristotle, 8
art films, lesbianism and, 162—76
Artinus of Miletus, 127-8
Ashbrook, Penny, 166—7, 170
At First Sight, 165, 166, 173
Athena, 147
Athens:
Amazon myth, 121-61 women's role in, 152-4
Austen, Alice, 91-7
automatons, 177-90
Autumn Leaves, 206
Bachofen, J.J., 122, 184
Baker, Michael, 88
Baldwin, James, 200-1
Bamberger, Joan, 150-1
Banfield, Ann, 229
Bardot, Brigitte, 61-3, 73-85
Barris, George, 68-9, 70
Barthes, Roland, 55,86
Baudrillard,Jean, 186, 187
Bauer, Ida see Dora
Bazin, André, 226—7, 228—9
Becatti, Giovanni, 142
Bellour, Raymond, 180, 183, 189
Bennett, Alan, 103
Bergman, Ingmar, 170
Bergson, Phillip, 169
Bernheimer, Charles...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Case histories
- Portraits
- Heroines
- Sexual politics
- Notes
- Index
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