Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture by Sara E. Cooper

Author:Sara E. Cooper [Cooper, Sara E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317992127
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Goodreads: 18564988
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. The Social Deviance Law (Ley de Peligrosidad Social, 1970) was actually kinder than the original Vagrancy Act (Ley de Vagos y Maleantes, 1954) because the newer law aimed at medically rehabilitating non-heterosexuals. See D’Lugo’s Pedro Almodóvar (2006) for more information on these laws.

2. The verb “destapar” literally means to “take the lid off.”

3. Founded in June 1934, the Sección Femenina (Feminine Section of the Spanish Falange) was the official women’s organization of Franco’s Spain. Reaching a membership of 680,000 at its height, it served to indoctrinate females into the political values of the Franco regime.

4. Luci and her husband have no children, suggesting impotence. What’s more, although the cop rapes Pepi, Luci tells her that she’s disappointed with him saying, “That’s why I married him. I thought that, being a police officer, he’d treat me like a dog. But no way, sister! He treats me like he would his mom (Creí que siendo policía me iba a tratar como perra. Pero ¡qué va, hija! Me respeta como si fuera su madre).”

5. Pepi says, “Ante ti se abre una nueva vida” to which Bom responds, “Ante ti también.” Pepi ends the conversation saying, “Eso espero.”

6. I am particularly indebted to Ruth Vanita’s Sappho and the Virgin Mary (1996), which helped me come to this reading of the film.

7. Smith suggests much the same in his “Entre tinieblas (Dark Habits, 1983): Out of the Convent,” in Desire Unlimited (1994: 37–49).

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