| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Sexual rights as a tool for mapping Europe: discourses of human rights and European identity in activists' struggles in Croatia / Nicole Butterfield -- Now you see it: gay (in)visibility and the performanceof post-Soviet identity / Brian James Baer -- Hiding in plain sight?: making homosexuality (in)visible in post-Yugoslav film / Marko Dumancic -- Taking off a cloak of invisibility: the clash of discourses about sexual difference in Slovakia / Viera Lorencová -- Strategies of inclusion and shifting attitudes towards visibility in the gay, lesbian, and queer discourse in the Czech republic after 1989 / Simona Fojtová -- The politics of coming out and Hungarian nationalism / Eszter Timár -- Neutralizing visibility: Bulgarian strategies for justifying inequality / Stanimir Panayotov -- The double bind of visibility: mainstreaming lesbianism in Love Sick / Zita Farkas -- Straight eye for the queer guy: gay male visibility in post-Soviet Russian films -- Global popular media and the local limits of queering / Anikó Imre |
| 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. This groundbreaking collection offers an original analysis of the notions and politics of queer visibility across a wide range of post-socialist cultures. Through case studies, the contributors set up an enquiry into the ways of understanding queer visibility specific to the discourses of post-socialist cultures. From the queer negotiations of nation and ethnicity as identity categories, through the concept of visibility in lesbian, gay and queer activist struggles, to the configurations of non-normative sexualities in the media and in films, Queer Visibility in Post-socialist Cultures addresses many intriguing questions from an interdisciplinary perspective. The employed approaches encompass gender and sexuality studies, media and film studies, sociology, and cultural anthropology in the context of East European studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Law and legislation -- Europe, Eastern
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Lesbians -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe, Eastern
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Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe, Eastern
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Gay rights -- Europe, Eastern
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Homosexuality -- Former communist countries
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
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Gay men -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Gay rights
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Homosexuality
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Homosexuality -- Law and legislation
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Lesbians -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Gay rights
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Eastern Europe
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Former communist countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fejes, Nárcisz, editor.
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Balogh, Andrea P., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781783201303 |
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1783201304 |
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9781783201297 |
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1783201290 |
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