[Commlist] New Book | Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal

Intellect is pleased to announce that /*Lesbians on Television: New 
Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/lesbians-on-television>*/, by Kate 
McNicholas Smith, is now available in ebook and hardback.

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. This book offers a unique and layered account of 
the complex dynamics in the modern moment of social change, drawing 
together critical, social and cultural theory as well as empirical 
research, which includes interviews and multi-platform media analyses.

This original new study puts forward a much-needed analysis of 
twenty-first century television and lesbian visibility. Books addressing 
the representation of lesbians have tended to focus on film; analysis of 
queer characters on television has usually focused on representations of 
gay males.  Other recent books have attempted to address lesbian, gay 
and trans representation together, with the result that none are 
examined in sufficient detail – here, the exclusive focus on lesbian 
representation allows a fuller discussion. Until now, much of the 
research on lesbian and gay representation has tended to employ only 
textual analysis. The combination of audience research with analysis in 
this book brings a new angle to the debates, as does the critical review 
of the tropes of lesbian representation. The earlier stereotypes of 
pathological monsters and predators are discussed alongside the more 
recent trends of ‘lesbian chic’ and ‘lesbianism as a phase’.
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*_Table of Contents
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*Acknowledgements*
*Introduction

Chapter 1: *'Previously…': Queer women on screen

*Chapter 2: *‘The way that we live and love’: /The L Word/ and the 
tensions of visibility

*Chapter 3: *‘Homophobia is so old fashioned’: /Skins/ and the lesbian 
normal

*Chapter 4: *‘/Skins/’ truest legacy’: The counterpublics of the Naomily 
fandom

*Chapter 5: *‘The nation’s favourite lesbian’: /Coronation Street/ and 
the ‘everyday’ soap lesbian

*Chapter 6: *‘New Directions’: /Glee/, new queer visibility and 
post-queer popular culture

*Chapter 7: *‘A new kind of family’: /The Fosters/ and the radical 
potential of the lesbian normal

*Afterword:* Reflections on the limits and possibilities of new queer 
visibility and the lesbian normal


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/lesbians-on-television
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/lesbians-on-television>


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