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ISBN: 9781551523972 Year: 2017 Publisher: Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press,
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"In the twenty-first century, the definitions of butch” and femme” have evolved and expanded along with other LGBT identities. Nearly twenty years after the publication of Joan Nestle’s groundbreaking 1992 book The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Persistence features leading queer authors and thinkers reflecting on what butch and femme mean to them today. The book is the result of an ongoing conversation between butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote, and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman; both had found solace in and been shaped by Nestle’s book during their own coming out adventures. Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Thea Hillman (Intersex), S. Bear Bergman (Butch is a Noun), Chandra Mayor (All the Pretty Girls), Amber Dawn (Sub Rosa), Anna Camilleri (Brazen Femme), Debra Anderson, Jeanne Cordova, Michael V. Smith, and Zoe Whittall explore the parameters of gender identity in the context of butch and femme: a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today’s ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come." --
Lesbians --- Gender identity. --- Lesbians --- Butch and femme (Lesbian culture) --- Identity.
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ISBN: 9781032057569 1032057564 9781032057590 9781003199045 Year: 2022 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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"The term "femme" originates from 1940s Western working-class lesbian bar culture, wherein femme referred to a feminine lesbian who was typically in a relationship with a butch lesbian. Expanding from this original meaning, femme has since emerged as a form of femininity reclaimed by queer and culturally marginalized folks. Importantly, femme has also evolved into a theoretical framework. Femme theory argues that "femme" constitutes a missing piece in queer and feminist discourses of femininity. Attending to this gap, femme theory centres queer femininities as a means of pushing against the deeply embedded masculinist orientation of queer and gender theory. Thus, femme theory offers tools to shift the way researchers and readers understand femininity as well as systems of gender and power more broadly. This book is an introduction to femme theory, showcasing how femme can be used as a theoretical framework across a variety of contexts and disciplines, such as Film & Media Studies, Psychology, Sociology, or Critical Disability Studies; from countries, including Canada, China, Guyana and the USA. Femme theory asks readers to reconsider how femininity is conceptualized, revealing some of the many taken for granted assumptions that are embedded within cultural discourses of gender, sexuality, and power." --
ISBN: 9780822340256 0822340259 1283023288 9786613023285 9780822390145 Year: 2007 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,
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Through an analysis of filmic representations of Black femininity, and the Black Femme in particular, this book highlights the ways "the cinematic" structures both racist and sexist portrayals, and their potential undoing.
Sex role in motion pictures. --- Sex in motion pictures. --- Race in motion pictures. --- Queer theory. --- Rôle selon le sexe au cinéma --- Sexualité au cinéma --- Race au cinéma --- Théorie allosexuelle --- Motion pictures --- Gender identity --- Sex in moving-pictures --- Erotic films --- Pornographic films --- Butch and femme (Lesbian culture) in motion pictures
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