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Author Bessette, Jean, author.

Title Retroactivism in the lesbian archives : composing pasts and futures / Jean Bessette
Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
Series Studies in rhetorics and feminisms
Studies in rhetorics and feminisms.
Contents Introduction: rhetoric and identification in grassroots historiography -- The daughters of bilitis archive: clearing historical space for clustered anecdotes -- Classifying collections: subversive schemas as topoi in place-based archives -- Remediating the archive: documentary compositions of lesbian pasts -- "A history of discontinuities": on the past and future of retroactivism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 9, 2018)
Subject Lesbians -- United States -- Historiography
Lesbians -- Identity -- Historiography
Feminism -- United States -- Historiography
Rhetoric -- Historiography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Feminism -- Historiography
Rhetoric -- Historiography
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780809336241
0809336243