Lesbians on Television : New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal

The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, "Lesbians on Television" maps the contemporary shifts in lesbian v...

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Main Author: Smith, Kate McNicholas (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Intellect 2020
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