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"A unique collection that brings together writing, photography, artwork, and poetry about lesbian butch and femme gender, Femme/Butch: New Considerations Of The Way We Want To Go distinguishes itself by celebrating a wide span of intellectual engagement, from personal reflection to traditional academic work, including many interdisciplinary approaches. Also, in addition to more ""serious"" writing, lesbian comediennes offer their irreverent takes on the femme/butch gender roles. Their perspectives are almost never found in academic publications, but what Lea DeLaria, Vickie Shaw, Karen Williams, and other edgy comics have to say about femme/butch sexuality deserves to be heard. With chapters focused on lesbians in Chinese cultures and on the emerging lesbian community in Bulgaria, this book explores the role of femme/butch identification in cultures without recognisable lesbian institutions."

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Author:   Michelle Gibson ,  Deborah Meem
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9781560233015

ISBN 10:   156023301
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   20 September 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Femme/Butch Introduction: The Way We Want to Go Dark Chocolate Prioritizing Audiences: Exploring the Differences Between Stone Butch and Transgendered Selves Explorations of Lesbian-Queer Genders: Butch, Femme, and Androgynous of “Other” Butches with Babies: Reconfiguring Gender and Motherhood The Butch/Femme Tango Genesis of a Femme and Her Desire: Finding Mommy and Daddy in Butch/Femme Femme/Butch Family Romances: A Queer Dyke Spin on Compulsory Heterosexuality There Once Was a Butch Illustration Female Fem(me)ininities: New Articulations in Queer Gender Identities and Subversion Emotional Butch Listening to the “Wives” of the “Female Husband”: A Project of Femme Historiography in Eighteenth-Century Britain I’ll Set You Straight! Thoughts on Lesbian Genders in Contemporary Chinese Cultures Reflections on Butch-Femme and the Emerging Lesbian Community in Bulgaria Ruth the Butch Clothes Make the (Wo)man: Marlene Dietrich and the “Double Drag” The Suit Suits Whom? Lesbian Gender, Female Masculinity, and Women-in-Suits The Perfect Child Index Reference Notes Included

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Michelle Gibson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies in the University College of the University of Cincinnati. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Teaching Writing, Feminist Teacher, Writing on the Edge and Studies in Popular Culture. Deborah Meem, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Women's Studies in the University College of Cincinnati. She is currently editing Eliza Lynn Linton's 1880 novel, The Rebel of the Family.

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