Women Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris
What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the la...
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Rutgers University Press
[2005]
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Zusammenfassung: | What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven decades. In the early twentieth century, though, no notion of lesbianism as a coherent social or cultural identity yet existed. In Women Together/Women Apart, Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other. Flocking to Paris from around the world, artists and performers such as Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and Suzy Solidor used portraiture to theorize and visualize a "new breed" of feminine subject. The book focuses on problems of feminine and lesbian self-representation at a time and place where the rights of women to political, professional, economic, domestic, and sexual autonomy had yet to be acknowledged by the law. Under such circumstances, same-sex solidarity and relative independence from men held important political implications. Combining gender theory with visual, cultural, and historical analysis, Latimer draws a vivid picture of the impact of sexual politics on the cultural life of Paris during this key period. The book also illuminates the far-reaching consequences of lesbian portraiture on contemporary constructions of lesbian identity |
Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019) |
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spelling | Latimer, Tirza True Verfasser aut Women Together/Women Apart Portraits of Lesbian Paris Tirza True Latimer New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press [2005] © 2005 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019) What does it mean to look like a lesbian? Though it remains impossible to conjure a definitive image that captures the breadth of this highly nuanced term, today at least we are able to consider an array of visual representations that have been put into circulation by lesbians themselves over the last six or seven decades. In the early twentieth century, though, no notion of lesbianism as a coherent social or cultural identity yet existed. In Women Together/Women Apart, Tirza True Latimer explores the revolutionary period between World War I and World War II when lesbian artists working in Paris began to shape the first visual models that gave lesbians a collective sense of identity and allowed them to recognize each other. Flocking to Paris from around the world, artists and performers such as Romaine Brooks, Claude Cahun, Marcel Moore, and Suzy Solidor used portraiture to theorize and visualize a "new breed" of feminine subject. The book focuses on problems of feminine and lesbian self-representation at a time and place where the rights of women to political, professional, economic, domestic, and sexual autonomy had yet to be acknowledged by the law. Under such circumstances, same-sex solidarity and relative independence from men held important political implications. Combining gender theory with visual, cultural, and historical analysis, Latimer draws a vivid picture of the impact of sexual politics on the cultural life of Paris during this key period. The book also illuminates the far-reaching consequences of lesbian portraiture on contemporary constructions of lesbian identity In English Geschichte 1918-1939 gnd rswk-swf SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Arts, French France Paris 20th century Lesbian artists France Paris Biography Lesbians France Paris Biography Lesbe (DE-588)4035430-1 gnd rswk-swf Lesbe Motiv (DE-588)4295831-3 gnd rswk-swf Bildnismalerei (DE-588)4145426-1 gnd rswk-swf Künstlerin (DE-588)4033430-2 gnd rswk-swf Paris (DE-588)4044660-8 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Paris (DE-588)4044660-8 g Künstlerin (DE-588)4033430-2 s Lesbe (DE-588)4035430-1 s Geschichte 1918-1939 z 2\p DE-604 Bildnismalerei (DE-588)4145426-1 s Lesbe Motiv (DE-588)4295831-3 s 3\p DE-604 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813541198 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 3\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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title | Women Together/Women Apart Portraits of Lesbian Paris |
title_auth | Women Together/Women Apart Portraits of Lesbian Paris |
title_exact_search | Women Together/Women Apart Portraits of Lesbian Paris |
title_full | Women Together/Women Apart Portraits of Lesbian Paris Tirza True Latimer |
title_fullStr | Women Together/Women Apart Portraits of Lesbian Paris Tirza True Latimer |
title_full_unstemmed | Women Together/Women Apart Portraits of Lesbian Paris Tirza True Latimer |
title_short | Women Together/Women Apart |
title_sort | women together women apart portraits of lesbian paris |
title_sub | Portraits of Lesbian Paris |
topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Arts, French France Paris 20th century Lesbian artists France Paris Biography Lesbians France Paris Biography Lesbe (DE-588)4035430-1 gnd Lesbe Motiv (DE-588)4295831-3 gnd Bildnismalerei (DE-588)4145426-1 gnd Künstlerin (DE-588)4033430-2 gnd |
topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Arts, French France Paris 20th century Lesbian artists France Paris Biography Lesbians France Paris Biography Lesbe Lesbe Motiv Bildnismalerei Künstlerin Paris Biografie |
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