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Taboo – Lesbians as a metaphorical threat to the heteronormative national order?
05 December 2017, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Taboo – Lesbians as a metaphorical threat to the heteronormative national order? History of sexualities, politics and cinema under communism in Eastern Europe
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UCL
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Darwin Lecture Theatre (access via Malet Place) Gower Street London WC1E 6XA
Is there a history of lesbian life under communism? Following a screening of the 1982 film The Other Way, Dr Chowaniec of UCL SSEESÂ will analyse the attitude to homosexuality in Eastern European communist settings and discuss the history of same-sex female desire, relationships and activity as threatening the dominating heterosexual lenses.
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