Barbara Hammer in the Seventies

Krystyna Mazur received her MA from the English Department of the University of Warsaw and her PhD from Cornell University. Her first book, Poetry and Repetition: Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, was published by Routledge in 2005 as part of the series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory. Her major research interests include U.S. literature, American studies, queer studies, and film studies..

• Chapter 1-Introduction.- PART I.- Chapter 2 -1970s: Contexts.- Chapter 3- Performing the Lesbian.- Chapter 4 - What a body can do: a Hammer Toolbox. -PART II.- Chapter 5 - Dyketactics at the Limits of Feminist Lesbian Community.- Chapter 6 - Becoming-Jane Becoming-Animal: Jane Brakhage.- Chapter 7 - Strength in Doubles: Lesbian (Auto)biography.- Chapter 8- Coda: Hammer’s Queer Feminists Pedagogy, Collaboration, Legacy.