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Smith, Liberty. "Something Sinister in this Affair: Femme/Butch Collaborations and American Politics," Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, December 2003.
This project argues for the interdependent relationship of queer women artists and the American nation(s) from which they are marginalized. Working within and between transnational American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women’s/Queer Studies, I show that twentieth-century and especially Cold War American history is in part defined by its relationship to those women who were at the center of the McCarthyite conflation of national and sexual threats. While gay government workers were special targets of suspicion at this moment, queer women both inside and outside the government and inside and outside the nation powerfully fulfilled the promise of disrupting U.S. national and sexual norms. For the first ladies of U.S. and Latin American literature I consider U.S. writers Joan Nestle and Leslie Feinberg, expatriates Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Mexican filmmaker Matilde Ladenta, Honduran novelist Lucila Gamero de Medina and Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga; their collaborative writing represents an especially suspect and powerful technology for political intervention.
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