Daughters of Desire

Shameem Kabir is a writer and editor based in London, UK.

Acknowledgements
Filmography
Introduction: Desire, Dyke-Icons, Mothers and Others Matter
Part I – Desire
1. Lesbian Desire on the Screen: The Mother as Other: The Hunger
2. The Castration of Lesbian Desire in Cinema: A Matter of Some Agency: Sister George Not at Her Personal Best
3. European Lesbians in Film: Reformulating the Fetishization of Beauty: November Moon Falls At First Sight
4. Lesbian Desire for Bedding Lesbians in Cinema: Plural Positionalities: Claire of the Moon Wants to Go Fish … When Night is Falling
Part II – Subtext
5. Lesbian Representations from Text to Screen: Reworking the Received: The Color Purple and Fried Green Tomatoes
6. Lesbians Come Out on Celluloid: Rage and Trauma as Subtext: Lianna on Thin Ice Listens to Nocturne
7. Early Cinema Lesbians in and out of the Closet: The Subtext Speaks the Unspeakable: Rebecca Seeks Queen Christina with Several Maidens in Uniform
8. Lesbian Spectating on Film: Extratext, Subtext, Intertext, Interdiscourse: Desperately Seeking Susan at the Baghdad Café Looking for Salmonberries and Fire
9. The Lesbian Subtext in Cinema: Resistant Readings: Thelma And Louise
Bibliography
Index