Just Between Us Girls: Discursive Spaces from America's First Gay Magazine to the World's Last Website for Queer Women, 1947-2019

<p><em>Just Between Us Girls</em> charts the diffusion of queer theory outside of the academy, using convergence theory to examine communication technologies like periodicals and the Web to argue for a conception of queer theory that includes discourse between queer women about queerness. In making this argument, this project creates a lineage of discursive spaces by, for, and about queer women, putting content from these spaces in conversation with canonical queer theorists like Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and Jack Halberstam. Analyzing and contextualizing discursive spaces like <em>Vice Versa</em> (1947-1948), <em>The Ladder</em> (1956-1972), <em>The Furies</em> (1972-1973), <em>AfterEllen</em>, and <em>Autostraddle </em>demonstrates not only that queer women have depended on communication technologies for identity and community formation long before the Web but also that queer women have historically invested in and theorized concepts significant to queer theory, like coming out, the relationship between gender and sexuality, and heteronormativity.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Rush, Josie

Contributors dc:contributor

• James P. Purdy
• Judy Suh
• Kara Keeling

• queer theory
• lesbians
• periodicals
• feminism
• lesbian-feminism
• American Popular Culture
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
• Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1810

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2824