Femme/Butch
Subtitle: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go
Contributors: Michelle, Ph.D. Gibson (Editor); Deborah T. Meem (Editor)
Publisher: Harrington Park Press
Published: October 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781560233015
Subjects: Lesbian Studies; Social Science; Sociology; Gender identity; Identity; Women's Studies - General; Lesbianism; Lesbians
First sentence: SUMMARY. In Leslie Feinberg's novel, Stone Butch Blues, the main character, Jess, can be read as either stone butch or transgendered, suggesting that stone butch and (female-born) transgender presentations are similar.
Description: "This unique collection brings together writing, photography, artwork, and poetry from authors and artists who are in the process of revising and rethinking butch and/or femme lesbian gender. Some are shaping their disciplines, some their nations, some their sexualities, some their lives, but all insist that readers open themselves to new intellectual, emotional, and sexual possibilities. In addition to more "serious" writing, lesbian comediennes offer their irreverent takes on butch-femme in this book.

Vickie Shaw, Karen Williams, Jamie Anderson, and other edgy comics - almost never included in strictly academic publications - add an unconventional spin to this examination of lesbian gender."--BOOK JACKET.