Velvet Light Trap articles from March 1998

Velvet Light Trap archives from March 1998

Introduction: rethinking genders.
March 22, 1998... Our concern in this issue of the Velvet Light Trap is to work toward the deconstruction of the oppositions "male" and "female," "man" and "woman." Recently, the validity of a binary structure of gender has been questioned from many and various...

A rebel without a choice?: femme spectatorship in Hollywood cinema.
March 22, 1998... Do Femmes Go to the Movies? In all these conversations I have been having with butches, they always talk about their role confusion.... But it seems they always had an image of themselves; they could always look at the movies...

Transgender, transgenre, and the transnational: Sally Potter's Orlando.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 1998... The Consolidation of Identities Sally Potter's film Orlando (1993) foregrounds complications around the construction of gendered identity and traverses borders of "nation" in terms of genres, representations, and modes of production. It is...

This laboratory, my body: a conversation with Allucquere Rosanne (Sandy) Stone.(Interview)
March 22, 1998... VLT: We were hoping you would start off by giving us a general sense of the histories of transexuality and transexual studies. ARS: Transexual studies originated with two professional researchers--I wouldn't exactly call them psychologists,...

Unheimlich maneuvers: the genres and genders of transsexual documentary.
March 22, 1998... The number of postoperative transsexuals living in North America at the present moment is considerably higher than many people might expect. It is estimated that there are approximately five thousand transsexuals living in the United States...

Lacandom: playing with French letters.(gender identity)
March 22, 1998... A Homophonic Convergence The call for papers on transgender studies links an identity to a new field of inquiry. Yet like the nomination "queer," "transgender" implicitly challenges a stable articulation of identity, the "trans" marking...

Queer readings/queer cinema: an examination of the early work of Todd Haynes.
March 22, 1998... In the late 1980s and early 1990s a number of independent films (and videos) by queer-identified directors attracted notice on the festival circuit. Features such as Poison (1991), Swoon (1992), and The Living End (1992) ultimately received...

Lesbian Configurations by Renee C. Hoogland.
March 22, 1998... As Renee C. Hoogland points out in the prologue to Lesbian Configurations, any attempt to provide an "overview" of lesbian studies would, at this time, prove "as much intellectually unviable as it was physically impossible" (3). Although this...