10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUTCHNESS»
Discover the use of
butchness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
butchness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Transmen want male privilege, but butches reject male privilege. Transmen hate
themselves, butches honor themselves. If this seems to be a portrait of butchness
that is both highly motivated and staggeringly inaccurate, it is no coincidence.
2
Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Anthology
The white Harvard graduate might have a different way of showing her butchness
than does the Chicano working-class lesbian living in Central Los Angeles,
although both might be influenced by similar ideologies about what constitutes a
...
Brett Beemyn, Mickey Eliason, 1996
3
Re-dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender
It's a point worth stating because it's one that's made by butchness and by a
particular kind of theatricality. I want to look at what butchness and that kind of
theatricality have in common and at what kind of theater metaphor works best for
...
4
Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education
This advice reinforces a problematic norm that transsexuals want to pass and
reinforces a hierarchy of gender—certainly they don't want to be feminine and
definitely not the femininity and/or masculinity associated with butchness. Indeed,
this ...
John C. Landreau, Nelson M. Rodriguez, 2011
5
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall
Beebo, ''tired and handsome,'' begins to take on a post-violent butchness that
recuperates what Laura so violently took away in the earlier novels: the work of a
life. While years before, Laura mocked Beebo for working in an elevator, ...
6
The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire
I didn't realize, when I decided to talk about butchness, that I was creating a
serious conundrum for myself, one that would not have arisen if I simply were
writing "Notes on Butch" for publication.1 The fact that I'd have to stand up,
delivering ...
7
Women’s Studies on the Edge
Transmen want male privilege, but butches reject male privilege. Transmen hate
themselves, butches honor themselves. If this seems to be a portrait of butchness
that is both highly motivated and staggeringly inaccurate, it is no coincidence.
8
Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian
Joan Nestle consistently responds to characterizations of butchness as gender
dysfunction or dysphoria by refining that language in favor of a definition of both
butchness and femmeness as different ways of enacting feelings of power, ...
9
Performing Female Masculinities at the Intersections of ...
Shaw's comment on butchness or (female) masculinity complicates the notion of
gender performativity as “regulatory fiction” and butch as a “role” player. The
emphasis on an “artifice” or “style” of performative gender theory might ignore
that ...
10
Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space
... unconscious and obscure psychic structures are fundamental to the
mechanisms of identification. Whereas these structures have been used
historically to incorporate butchness into sexual pathology, this need not
necessarily be the case.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUTCHNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
butchness is used in the context of the following news items.
Gay, out, and proud on film
The Royal Road (Saturday 11, 8.15pm ), Jenni Olson's poetic film essay on such diverse topics as unavailable women, nostalgia, butchness, ... «Galway Advertiser, Jul 15»
Queer Laboratory Life: Recognising the work of LGBT scientists
Lesbian engineering students contend with both sexism, and assumptions about their technical skills based on stereotypes around butchness. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
“Fun Home” Is Bringing Butch Lesbians Into The Mainstream
Malone's butchness, on the contrary, was remarkable. The wide stance, the loose shoulders, the pitching slightly forward as she walked, the ... «BuzzFeed News, Jun 15»
30 Hottest Lumbersexual Celebrities
The internet is all about “Lumbersexuals” these days – beautiful men with insanely rugged beards, tartan shirts and that “butchness” associated ... «WhatCulture, Jun 15»
Tony Awards 2015's 12 Best and Worst Moments
... the beauty of female butchness. It was a rare bird of a Tony performance: tons of heart and zero bombast. Best Actor winner Michael Cerveris, ... «RollingStone.com, Jun 15»
Road to the Tonys: How the 'Fun Home' Creators Unlocked 'Ring of …
“I was concerned with how to write about butchness for what would presumably be an audience that is not completely made up of lesbians,” ... «Variety, Jun 15»
A Dispatch From the Shifting, Porous Border Between Butch and Trans
It's not new to observe the existence of these areas of overlap between butchness and transgender. The seminal text of all things butch, Leslie ... «Slate Magazine, Apr 15»
Withering Glance: We're gonna party like it's 1989 with mixtapes
RN: A favorite of mine is one that was assembled many years ago by a friend, now dead. He scrawled “Demure Butchness” — which was also ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Mar 15»
Stop killing our Pakistani brothers!
Why christians Kill Local Glass cuter? did their anger calm down by doing this act of butchness. Recommend11. Mehtab. Mar 17, 2015 12:06am. Muslims should ... «DAWN.com, Mar 15»
19th annual Braithwaite Lecture features graphic novelists
... enables artists to depict the complexity of the gendered self and the seemingly incongruous identities of “butchness,” lesbian and pregnant. «The Flat Hat, Feb 15»
