Abstract:Jill Johnston’s life has often been treated as bifurcated, with the period when she was a dance and art critic in the 1950s and 1960s considered separate from her celebrity as a writer and provocateur of lesbian feminism. The introduction proposes that this split obscures the ways in which Johnston’s life in dance influenced her later work as a lesbian activist. It also proposes that Johnston is a fascinating example of how to study lesbian subjectivity, because she was adept at being both legible and not, cle… Show more
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