Lesbian Training at the Space Force Academy: Book 4 of the Pansexual Adventures of the Starship Panoply

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Reconsidering notions of the 'invisible' or 'apparitional' lesbian, Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Virginia Woolf. And we're updating this list every week. It's the UK"s most up to date list with over 180 prides taking place in 2024. Plan which pride events to attend this year. Before lesbianism became a specific identity category in the West, its mere suggestion functioned as a powerful source of scandal in early twentieth-century British and Anglo-American culture. Medd's text will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in gender and women's studies, modernist literary studies and English literature. Medd's analysis draws on legal proceedings and parliamentary debates as well as crises within modern literary production - patronage relations, literary obscenity and cultural authority - to reveal how lesbian suggestion forced modern political, cultural and literary institutions to negotiate their own identities, ideals and limits.

• Offers compelling stories of scandalous trials and their relationship to movements in modernist art and literature
• Reconsiders established terms in 'lesbian history'/sexual history
• Draws surprising connections between lesbian allegations and political and artistic concerns