What is She Like

Lesbian Identities from the 1950s to the 1990s

Rosa Ainley (Royal College of Art, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
06 October 2016

Social & cultural history; Lesbian studies

Series: Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

In What Is She Like? Rosa Ainley looks in depth at how lesbians see themselves and at the questions of identity that have defined and divided the lesbian community. Covering the period from the 1950s, with its repressive influence on sexuality in general, through so-called sexual liberation in the 1960s, to the freedoms and limitations of (lesbian) feminism in the 1970s, she brings exciting and illuminating perspectives to bear on lesbian lives in the 1990s, when lipstick lesbians were the darlings of the mainstream media.

Ainley deconstructs the bizarre popular myths and stereotypes which often surround the twilight world of lesbianism, substituting for them a celebration of the multifarious nature of the lesbian subculture which evolved during the late 20th century.

In a series of fascinating interviews interspersed with the text, over 20 women, of varying ages, races and backgrounds, talk frankly about their lives and lifestyles as lesbians, focusing on their own identity in terms of politics, leisure pursuits, fashion and affiliations.

By: Rosa Ainley (Royal College of Art UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 494g
ISBN: 9781474292474
ISBN 10: 147429247X
Series: Gender Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 06 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rosa Ainley is a writer and text-based artist. Recent work includes Building 519, a text/audio piece about the Pfizer pharmaceutical complex outside Sandwich in Kent, commissioned for Whitstable Biennale 2014; and ‘While You’re Waiting’ on RSHP’s Cancer Centre at Guy’s hospital, London (2015). She is a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, in Architecture, exploring writing as a means of cultural recovery and reuse of buildings.