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“One Night, There Was Five of Them . . .”: Sexualized Violence and Queer Identity in Albert Nobbs
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- also work with the sexualized violence conversion trope—albeit in slightly different ways. Indeed these films are important to considerations of the sexualized violence conversion trope as they both work to attribute queer women’s sexual and gender identities to their experiences of sexualized assault. I argue, however, there is something different at stake in these films given that they are biopics. In attributing a real person’s lived experience of sexualized violence as formative of their queer sexual and/or gender identity, these films add a new level of complexity and danger to the sexualized violence conversion trope. Because these stories are based upon
- Because I do not believe that Albert desires Helen in sexual manner as I argue elsewhere in this article, I use Rothblum’s and Brehony’s term as a means of articulating how Albert’s sexuality is not lesbian or heterosexual, but in fact queer
- Conrad Peter
- Estrich Susan
- Herek Gregory
- J. Descamps Monica
- McCreery Patrick
- Moore George
- O’Leary Joseph
- Projansky
- Rich Adrienne
- Taylor Kate
- The idea of adopting a different gender identity to attain employment is not new in film. For instance one can think of the 1982 film Tootsie
- Vankin Deborah
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