... neighbor and friend of Alli. His sexuality is, however, set up in a structural opposition to the potential lesbianism, never more than a connotative spectre, of Alli's roommate, Hedra ("Hedy") Carlson (Jen- nifer Jason Leigh). A further complication, rupturing this apparently...

... importance in their lives because they are the only ones upon whom women can rely.12 Given that Single White Female’s plot turns on an initially happy domestic alliance between Allie and Hedy gradually becoming “conflicted” to the point that envious Hedy ends up bludgeon- ing Allie’s best friend and...

... . Star , Hedy Jo , and Carl Rollins Hammonds. I Changed My Sex! Publisher unknown, 1955 . Steiner , Betty , ed. Gender Dysphoria Syndrome: Development, Research, Management . New York: Plenum Press, 1985 . Stoller , Robert J. Presentations of Gender . New Haven: Yale UP, 1985...

... of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, the camera takes up residence in the bathroom of Emmi’s apartment while Ali (Salem El Hedi) takes a shower. Although we are made visual accessories to that event, we are never permitted to glance directly at Ali; the film shows only the image of his body reflected...