Butch/femme : inside lesbian gender / editor, Sally R. Munt ; photo editor, Cherry Smyth.

Date:
©1998
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Publication/Creation

London : Cassell, ©1998.

Physical description

ix, 244 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Contents

Introduction / Sally R. Munt -- The Marriage of Heaven y Hielo: A Love Narrative of Sorts / Gerry Gomez Pearlberg -- Sailor / Gerry Gomez Pearlberg -- On Meeting Ruthann / Elissa G. Perry -- 1970s Lesbian Feminism Meets 1990s Butch-Femme / Judith Roof -- Making Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970s / Sue-Ellen Case -- Loaves and Fishes / Cherry Smyth -- Hotel Room / Cherry Smyth -- Alice-Hunting / Esther Newton -- Between Butches / Judith Halberstam -- Sheila Dances with Sheila / Lois Weaver -- Femme to Femme: A Love Story / Clare Whatling -- How Do We Look? Imaging Butch/Femme / Cherry Smyth -- Waiting for No Man: Bisexual Femme Subjectivity and Cultural Repudiation / Clare Hemmings -- Femme Erotic Independence / Jewelle L. Gomez -- Girl Talk: Femmes in Discussion / Louise Carolin and Catherine Bewley -- Embodying Desire: Piercing and the Fashioning of 'Neo-butch/femme' Identities / Lisa Walker -- Losing Sue / Heather Findlay -- A Tale of Two Annies / Emma Donoghue -- King of the Hill: Changing the Face of Drag -- An Interview with Dred / Sarah E. Chinn and Kris Franklin -- Stone Butch / Nice Rodriguez -- Untouchability and Vulnerability: Stone Butchness as Emotional Style / Ann Cvetkovich -- 'Real' Compared to What? Butch and Femme Contradictions in Greek Culture / Nina Rapi -- The Hegemonic Regulation of Butch Performance: Regina v. Saunders / Anna Marie Smith -- Public Discourse and the Closeting of Butch Lesbians / Shane Phelan -- Orifices in Space: Making the Real Possible / Sally R. Munt -- The Conversation / Elissa Perry -- Living under the Sign of the Cross: Some Speculations on Femme Femininity / Lynda Hart -- Afterword / Judith Butler.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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    Awaiting cataloguing for Wellcome Collection

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  • 030433958X
  • 9780304339587
  • 0304339598
  • 9780304339594
  • 9789780304331
  • 9780304339