{"product_id":"girls-in-the-back-room-1","title":"Girls In The Back Room","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first in-depth study of how lesbian bars are depicted in popular culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lesbian bar has long been seen as a mysterious place, steeped in mythologies of clandestine meetings and sexuality that is alluring because it is wayward and sinful. In \u003cem\u003eThe Girls in the Back Room,\u003c\/em\u003e Kelly Hankin focuses on the lesbian bar, looking at how it is portrayed in such films as \u003cem\u003eFoxy Brown, The Killing of Sister George, Basic Instinct, Bound, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eChasing Amy;\u003c\/em\u003e in television series like \u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons, Xena: Warrior Princess, Roseanne, Ellen,\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSex and the City;\u003c\/em\u003e and in independent, lesbian-produced documentaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHankin examines the lesbian bar through a consideration of the ways its representation in popular culture both oppresses and nourishes lesbian cultures. In popular commercial entertainment, she finds, the view of the lesbian bar as a private space for those who practice aberrant sexuality implicitly reinforces heterosexual spatial and social privilege. Through her in-depth history of the production of \u003cem\u003eThe Killing of Sister George\u003c\/em\u003e in 1968 and the deception involved in director Robert Aldrich's use of a real lesbian bar and its patrons, for example, Hankin uncovers the heterosexist preconceptions in evidence on both sides of the camera. She argues that lesbian-produced works effectively challenge this paradigm, articulating and confirming positive visions of lesbian public life and identity. \u003cem\u003eThe Girls in the Back Room \u003c\/em\u003eprovides an engaging historical and theoretical analysis of the visual lesbian bar as a revelatory intersection of gender, sexuality, and space.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelly Hankin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616374186364,"sku":"9780816639298","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_0b014942-c85b-4b28-b850-f2721d0f4a91.jpg?v=1746711670","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/girls-in-the-back-room-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}