It's about This: Lesbians, Prison, Desire

Millbank, J

It's about This: Lesbians, Prison, Desire

Millbank, J

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Citation:: Law and Popular Culture, 2012
Issue Date:: 2012-03-22

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dc.contributor.author	Millbank, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8934-7945	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-03-22	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Law and Popular Culture, 2012	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	9780199272235	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1229
dc.description.abstract	© Oxford University Press 2005. All rights reserved. This chapter is concerned with the legal aspects in the depiction of lesbians in motion pictures. It explains that lesbians are often portrayed as violent aggressors and anti-social in films and suggests that such portrayals do contribute to a culture of anti-lesbian discrimination and violence. It analyses three narratives of transgressive lesbian desire and argues that each of them offers a challenge to a hetero-normative representational codes.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Law and Popular Culture	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272235.003.0026	en_US
dc.title	It's about This: Lesbians, Prison, Desire	en_US
dc.type	Chapter
utslib.for	1801 Law	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HJ - Health Justice
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pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US

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© Oxford University Press 2005. All rights reserved. This chapter is concerned with the legal aspects in the depiction of lesbians in motion pictures. It explains that lesbians are often portrayed as violent aggressors and anti-social in films and suggests that such portrayals do contribute to a culture of anti-lesbian discrimination and violence. It analyses three narratives of transgressive lesbian desire and argues that each of them offers a challenge to a hetero-normative representational codes.

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