ABSTRACT
(First published in The Contest of Meaning, Ed. Richard Bolton, MIT Press, 1989 & 1992)
During the 1980s, writings on the representation of lesbian and gay sexuality in photography were many and varied. Zita Grover’s ‘Dykes in Context’ is perhaps the most scholarly and acute essay currently available to us. A stringent critique of the ‘negatives and absences that have played so large a role in determining lesbian picture-making until recently’, it examines ways in which lesbianism has been marginalised or exoticised within the media.
