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Title	Lesbians On Television: New Queer Visibility and The Lesbian Normal
Authors	McNicholas Smith, K.
Abstract	This book explores the mediation of contemporary LGBTQ+ inclusion: as same-sex marriage took centre stage in LGBTQ+ rights, representations imagined lesbians brides. Lesbians on TV develops a queer feminist analysis of the limits and possibilities of this new queer visibility in popular culture; tracking contemporary figurations of lesbian, bisexual and queer women across multiple platforms - from teen dramas to soap operas to Tumblr pages and fanfiction stories to news and magazine media - and drawing on interviews with queer fans. In doing so it examines the forms of intimacy, identity and inclusion that are opened up, and closed down, in the contemporary mediation of 'the lesbian normal'.
Keywords	Queer
	Lesbian
	LGBTQ
	Post-feminist
	Television
	Post-queer
	Popular Culture
	Fandom
	Feminism
Year	2020
Publisher	Intellect
Published	16 Nov 2020
Place of publication	Bristol
ISBN	9781789382808
Web address (URL)	https://www.intellectbooks.com/lesbians-on-television

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