Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go

Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go
What are the meanings behind constructed lesbian identities?

This unique collection 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 reflection to traditional academic work, including both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.

In addition to more â€œseriousâ€ writing, lesbian comediennes offer their irreverent takes on femme/butch in this book. 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. Youâ€™ll also find that Femme/Butch is essential for the global perspective it brings to lesbian gender. 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 recognizable lesbian institutions.

Here are a few of the questions the contributors to Femme/Butch examine in this remarkable book:
- Can theory about femme/butch exist in the electric realm of sex and sexuality, or does theory necessarily neutralize sexuality?
- What role does popular culture play in helping us to theorize about lesbian gender?
- What are the relationships between history and femme/butch lesbian gender?
- Does lesbian identity development come in individual stages or is it more of a free-flowing process?
- How does social class relate to how we think about femme/butch race, ethnicity, and butch-femme?
Femme/Butch is an ideal guide to understanding:
- the similarities between stone-butch and transgender identitiesâ€•using Leslie Feinbergâ€™s Stone Butch Blues as a reference point
- the erotically resignified roles of Mommy, Daddy, girl, and boy in butch-femme
- femme/butch issues of power, trust, love, and loss
- the â€œfemale husbandsâ€ of the 18th century and their â€œwivesâ€
- the meanings of cross-dressing for lesbians
- the variety of lesbian-queer gendersâ€•butch, femme, androgynous, and â€œotherâ€
- and much more!
Country USA
Brand Routledge
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781560233015
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Routledge
Manufacturer	Routledge
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781560233015
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00