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[1]   At the end of the Xena: Warrior Princess episode, “The Play’s the Thing,” in which Gabrielle directs her own play, Minya, with her new friend Paulina in tow, exclaims:Gabrielle, I wanted to thank you. I never would have met Paulina

[1]   Ursula Biemann’s Been There and Back to Nowhere is about minority women in border zones, the representations made of them in the media, and the efforts of artists working collaboratively with them to construct a different set of

[1]   JAGOSE: Your book on gay male spectatorships notesthe cultural persistence, both homophobic and anti-homophobic, in reading the movie fan and the male homosexual in terms of each other. (figure 1) Indeed, a couple of times you offer

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.– Donna HarawayReplicants are like any other machine. They can be abenefit or a hazard.– Deckard in Blade Runner.[1]   Arguably the most influential Science Fiction

[1]   JAGOSE: Given the Motion Picture Production Code’s determination to corral “sex perversion” outside the cinematic field of vision, classical Hollywood cinema might not seem a promising archive for the consideration of lesbian

[1]   Contemporary discussions of globalization and the transnational circulation of cultural products are often marked by celebratory exhortations of the imminent global village or by less optimistic perspectives that present the Third

[1]   Fathers and fatherhood have long played an important role in the thinking and theorizing about law. From Abraham and Isaac to Supreme Court cases, like the now famous DeShaney v. Winnebago,1 it seems that everywhere we turn law

[1]   "The camera has uncovered that cell-life of the vital issues in which all great events are ultimately conceived; for the greatest landslide is only the aggregate of the movements of single particles. A multitude of close-ups can show us

[1]  I really like to watch soap operas. As a self-respecting feminist academic, I realize I am supposed to be ashamed to say so, but for reasons I hope this essay will make clear, I am saying so at once. I am not using "soap opera," as do many

"A Case Very Near the Borderline"(1)   Hollywood's Production Code explicitly banned "miscegenation" from the American screen for nearly thirty years.1The files of the Production Code Administration (PCA) which document the interpretation