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- Title
CHAPTER 4: Butch: A Cartography of Desire.
- Authors
Gardiner, Kelly
- Abstract
This chapter is a work of auto-/biography and a mapping of the literary and cultural history of one form of female masculinity. From early crossdressers to 1950s sharp suits, from 1990s androgyny to tomboy chic, how has butch represented the material and fluid, overt and covert, performer and spectator, gender and love? Taking a broad view of materiality, it traces ways of being visible in the world, exploring the physicality of rebellion and of desire. It attempts to map events and entanglements, not to force them into relationships with each other, but rather to recognize the cultural work of queer resistance.
- Subjects
SOCIAL constructionism; SOCIAL psychology; SOCIAL processes; MATERIALISM; SOCIAL integration
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2020, Vol 358, p79
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004441460_006