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All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America

4 reviews
Suzanna Danuta Walters

University Of Chicago Press, 2003

All the Rage is All the Rave!
Author Suzanna Danuta Walters chronciles the history of gay visibility in America excellently in this book! Looking at it from a variety of perspectives: Cinema, Television, Advertising (Marketing)and her own personal accounts of being a lesbian parent. While the debate rages on over assimilation, equal rights and the unigueness of gay culture, I feel that the author has done an excellent job ...

Lives Together/Worlds Apart: Mothers and Daughters in Popular Culture
Suzanna Danuta Walters

University of California Press, 1994

In the 1940s film Now, Voyager, Bette Davis plays a daughter struggling against her mother's stifling repression. Nearly fifty years later, in the Hollywood saga Postcards from the Edge , Shirley MacLaine, as a neglectful and bossy mother, inflicts untold psychological pain on her daughter, played by Meryl Streep. These dramas of conflict and the ambivalent struggle for separation have been central to popular images of mothers and daughters ...

Material Girls: Making Sense of Feminist Cultural Theory

1 review
Suzanna Danuta Walters

University of California Press, 1995

This book does not live up to its title of "Making Sense"
Walters becomes very wordy in her second chapter and continues throught the entire book this way. She has several interesting chapters in which she gives critical interpretations of popular films and television shows, however, they fail to make up for the dullness of the entire book. She is overly critical of previous methods of feminist criticism, while at the same time almost cocky about ...

Queer Theory (Readers in Cultural Criticism)
Suzanna Danuta Walters, Patrick Califia, ...

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

What is queer theory? What does it do? Is queer theory only for queers? This vibrant anthology of ground breaking work by influential scholars, activists, performers, and visual artists is essential reading for anyone with an interest in sexuality studies. The fifteen articles--including one from Judith Butler, as well as an engaging introduction--map, contextualize, and challenge queer theory's project both within and beyond the academy. ...