Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804812
- Title
- Mapping lesbian sexuality on Queer as Folk
- Author/Creator
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Beirne, Rebecca
- Description
- The lesbian characters on Showtime's 'Queer as Folk' (2000-2005) were remarkable in that, unlike almost all previous lesbian characters on television, they were not positioned in relation to a heterosexual environment. The television world of these characters is one that revolves around queerness, indeed, they exist in a homonormative environment rather than a heteronormative one. What exactly, however, does this homonormativity constitute? As I argued in "Embattled Sex," lesbians are excluded from the domain of "queer" that 'Queer as Folk' privileges, and, by extension, from the realm of "sex." The series thereby enacts heteronormative patriarchal discourse even as it queers it, by maintaining gender distinctions that privilege male narratives and sexuality over female ones.
- Relation
- Televising Queer Women: a Reader p. 99-107
- Relation
- http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=302401
- Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave MacMillan
- Keyword(s)
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Queer as Folk;
sexuality;
lesbians;
media representations;
television;
homonormativity;
gender distinctions
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804812
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780230600805
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