Bauer Heike, Mahn Churnjeet
a Department of English and Humanities, School of Arts, Birkbeck , University of London , London , UK.
J Lesbian Stud. 2014;18(3):203-8. doi: 10.1080/10894160.2014.896608.
This special issue examines the transnational shape and shaping of lesbian lives and cultures in and across China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It uses the expression "transnational lesbian cultures" to suggest that despite sometimes radically different sociopolitical and cultural contexts, the lived experiences of same-sex desire and their emotional attachments create particular affinities between women who love women, affinities that reach across the distinct cultural and social contexts that shape them. The articles brought together explore lesbian subcultures, film, graphic novels, music, and online intimacies. They show that as a cultural and political signifier and as an analytical tool, lesbian troubles and complicates contemporary sexual politics, not least by revealing some of the gendered structures that shape debates about sexuality in a range of critical, cultural and political contexts. While the individual pieces cover a wide range of issues and concerns-which are often highly specific to the historical, cultural, and political contexts they discuss-together they tell a story about contemporary transnational lesbian culture: one that is marked by intricate links between norms and their effects and shaped by the efforts to resist denial, discrimination, and sometimes even active persecution.
本期特刊探讨了中国、印度、英国和美国境内及跨国的女同性恋生活与文化的跨国形态及形成过程。它使用“跨国女同性恋文化”这一表述，意在表明尽管社会政治和文化背景有时截然不同，但同性欲望的生活经历及其情感依恋在爱女性的女性之间创造了特殊的亲密关系，这种亲密关系跨越了塑造她们的不同文化和社会背景。汇集于此的文章探讨了女同性恋亚文化、电影、漫画小说、音乐和网络亲密关系。它们表明，作为一种文化和政治标志以及一种分析工具，女同性恋使当代性政治变得复杂棘手，尤其是通过揭示在一系列关键、文化和政治背景下塑造性取向辩论的一些性别化结构。虽然各篇文章涵盖了广泛的问题和关切——这些问题和关切往往高度特定于它们所讨论的历史、文化和政治背景——但它们共同讲述了一个关于当代跨国女同性恋文化的故事：一个以规范及其影响之间的复杂联系为特征，并受到抵制否定、歧视乃至有时积极迫害的努力所塑造的故事。
