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Queer visibility in post-socialist cultures / edited by Nárcisz Fejes and Andrea P. Balogh ; Edwin Fox, cover designer ; Bethan Ball, production manager.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality.
- Sexual rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England ; Chicago, Illinois : Intellect, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The growing visibility of lesbian and gay people in the countries of Europe formerly known as the Eastern Bloc over the past two decades has opened up a new controversial field for academic exploration and debate. The authors of this book explore, non-normative sexualities, which were virtually invisible under socialism, appeared in varied forms of public display aft er the fall of the Iron Curtain: on TV shows, magazine stands, and festivals, for example.
- Contents:
- Cover ; Half Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Post-socialist Politics of Queer In/visibility ; PART I: Queer Negotiations of Post-socialist Identities; Chapter 1: Sexual Rights as a Tool for Mapping Europe: Discourses of Human Rights and European Identity in Activists' Struggles in Croatia ; Chapter 2: Now You See It: Gay (In)Visibility and the Performance of Post-Soviet Identity; Chapter 3: Hiding in Plain Sight?: Making Homosexuality (In)Visible in Post-Yugoslav Film; PART II: Queer Politics and Activism
- Chapter 4: Taking Off a Cloak of Invisibility: The Clash of Discourses about Sexual Difference in SlovakiaChapter 5: Strategies of Inclusion and Shifting Attitudes towards Visibility in the Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Discourse in the Czech Republic after 1989; Chapter 6: The Politics of Coming Out and Hungarian Nationalism; Chapter 7: Neutralizing Visibility: Bulgarian Strategies for Justifying Inequality; PART III: Configurations of Queer in Post-socialist Film and Media; Chapter 8 :The Double Bind of Visibility: Mainstreaming Lesbianism in Love Sick
- Chapter 9: Straight Eye for the Queer Guy: Gay Male Visibility in Post-Soviet Russian FilmsChapter 10: Global Popular Media and the Local Limits of Queering; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 13, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9781783201297
- 1783201290
- 9781783201303
- 1783201304
- OCLC:
- 893707524
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