1. Looking at Lesbians Internationally: An Introduction Sara E. Cooper 2. Lesbian Weddings and the Revenge of the Clones Jen Bacon 3. “It Feels More Like a Parody”: Canadian Queer as Folk Viewers and the Show They Love to Complain About Wendy Peters 4. Screening the Dykes of Oz: Lesbian Representation on Australian Television Rebecca Beirne 5. We Are Family? Spanish Law and Lesbian Normalization in Hospital Central M´onica Calvo and Maite Escudero 6. Pepi, Luci, Bom, and Dark Habits: Lesbian “Families” in the Films of Pedro Almod´ovar Mar´ia DiFrancesco 7. Articulating “Indianness”: Woman-Centered Desire and the Parameters for Nationalism Shamira A. Meghani 8. Looking for Asian Butch-Dykes: Exploring Filmic Representations of East Asian Butch-Dykes in Donna Lee’s Enter the Mullet Hui-Ling Lin 9. Through the Postcolonial Eyes: Images of Gender and Female Sexuality in Contemporary South Africa Henriette Gunkel 10. Women on Women: Lesbian Identity, Lesbian Community, and Lesbian Comics Adrienne Shaw 11. “Them Ol’ Nasty Lesbians”—Queer Memory, Place, and Rural Formations of Lesbian Reta Ugena Whitlock 12. Fad Lesbianism: Exposing Media’s Posing Katherine Wirthlin
Biography
Sara E. Cooper is Associate Professor of Spanish and Multicultural & Gender Studies at California State University, Chico. Cooper edited The Ties That Bind: Questioning Family Dynamics and Family Discourse in Hispanic Literature and Film and has published articles in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Letras femeninas, Ciberletras, Journal of Lesbian Studies, Cuban Studies, Chasqui., Confluencia: Revista Hisp´anica de Cultura y Literatura, Tortilleras: Hispanic and Latina Lesbian Expression, Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and the Literary Study, Mujeres latinoamericanas del siglo XX: Historia y Cultura, Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present, and Women’s Issues in North America and the Caribbean.
