Abstract
The Lesbian Avengers, an activist group of the early 1990s, utilized rhetorics of visibility to draw attention to lesbian issues, highlighting their gendered and sexualized bodies. Coinciding with the emergence of lesbian chic in popular culture, the Avengers complicated the bodily abstraction presumed in public discourse by flaunting a sexual excessiveness that could not be contained by a heteronormative economy of desire. Premised on displacement, the Avengers' visibility therefore productively queers the politics of visibility.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 121-141 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Women's Studies in Communication |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Lesbian Avengers
- activism
- embodiment
- lesbian chic
- queer
- visibility
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Communication