description: 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/ 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 “serious” 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. You’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 
language: English
title: Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go
titlecomplete: Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go
genres: Theory, Gender, Queer, LGBT, Butch Femme, Lesbian, Nonfiction, Queer Studies, History
ratings_count: 14
publisher: Routledge