Reviews for Gateways to improving lesbian health and health care

The average rating for Gateways to improving lesbian health and health care based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-06-06 00:00:00 Jason Johnson This book is pretty outdated in that it was written 20 years ago and a lot has changed in relation to lesbians in film since then. Still, most everything Weiss writes about here is still relevant and/or interesting in some way. Instead of being a historical account this is all theoretically based. It has chapters on girls school films, Dietrich and Garbo, Post War Hollywood, Vampires, Art Cinema and Independent Films. I do not agree with everything she says as she finds every single lesbian that has ever been in a film problematic. Basically all of her concerns are completely valid (each type of woman portrayed it either seen as a victim, a mother-daughter connection, or titillating objectifcation for men specifically) but it also makes it seemingly impossible for anyone to do anything right which I think is just as problematic. Thankfully it is balanced out with the postivie aspects and also juxtaposed with medical information about how homosexuality was being thought of at specific points, what theories were around an dso forth so it is easy to compare those with the representations on screen. Every chapter was really interesting. Loved reading about Queen Christina and Morocco. Also Night of the Iguana which I had forgotten about entirely. Also many other interesting points and ideas. I want to find a more recent take on the issue/history of lesbians in film because its biggest flaw was that the most recent film written about in it was The Color Purple.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-21 00:00:00 Hugo Low I would kill for an updated edition of this book. I would consider it dated only because it was published in the early 90s and so much queer shit has happened in the last two decades!