Routledge Research in Gender and Society Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity

Type
Book
ISBN 10
1032499044 
ISBN 13
9781032499048 
Category
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Publication Year
2024 
Publisher
Pages
396 
Subject
Lesbians - Identity |Bisexual women - Identity |Gender - nonconforming - Identity| Sexual minority culture 
Description
Foreword
Sally R. Munt

Introduction

Róisín Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy

SECTION 1: (IN)VISIBILITY AND THE QUEER GAZE

1. Queer old movie star

Esther Newton

2. Staging our desires: Drag kings and the pleasures of community building

Liz Millward and Marie Lou Duret

3. ‘In their loving gaze I saw who I could be’: Revisiting the butch/femme couple as joint subject through Esther Newton’s My Butch Career

Kimberley Mather

4. Transcripts, TransTape™, Transience: Locating the bisexual butch

El. Reid-Buckley

5. The punchline isn’t everything: Feminist and queer stand-up dramedy

Candace Moore

6. Gender, sexuality and visual culture – an interview with Rosalind Gill

Rosalind Gill and Róisín Ryan-Flood

SECTION 2: LINEAGE AND GENERATIONAL SHIFTS

7. Femme frontiers: Tracing the lineage of fore-femmes through to contemporary identities and femme theory

Rhea Ashley Hoskin

8. Book Banning in the U.S.: A call for multi-generational activism

K. Allison Hammer

9. From Butch and Femme Lesbians to Non-binary and Queer Women: Intergenerational Shifts from In-person Places to Digital Spaces

S.L. Crawley and Ashley Green

10. Carabiners and Violet Tattoos: the desire for nostalgia in online lesbian space

Eleanor Medhurst

11. Increased Lesbian Visibility and its Discontents: Comparing the coming out stories of women and nonbinary people across generations

Ella Ben Hagai, Brenda Meza, Kristen Pinchbeck and Rachelle Annechino

12. Queer lineage: On generational sexualities, LGBTQ identity and visibility

Róisín Ryan-Flood

SECTION 3: QUEER EMBODIMENT

13. Against Pathology: Exploring the Desire for Femininity

Hannah McCann

14. Complicating queer desires: Identity politics of the lesbian and bisexual communities in South Africa

Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki

15. My own private non-binary body

Libro Levi Bridgeman

16. ‘Aren’t you ashamed?’: Explicit representation and shame in the work of Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson and Melissa Febos

Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain

17. Trans history and politics – an interview with Susan Stryker

Susan Stryker and Róisín Ryan-Flood

18. Midlife lesbian: Alison Bechdel and Me

Lee Wallace

SECTION 4: QUEER LONGINGS

19. Desiring Technologies: Digital Pathways toward Black Queer Sociality

Dominique Adams-Santos

20. The butch on the ferry: The affect and effect of butch longing

Amy Tooth Murphy

21. Desire on the Inside: Incarcerated Women, Bisexual Identity, and Human Connection

Amy B. Smoyer and Rebecca Harvey

22. Queering romance: Expressions of love and intimacy in late-twentieth-century lesbian relationships

Rebecca Jennings

23. Intimacy or intimacies? Queering Jewish women’s desires and intimate lives

Mie Astrup Jensen

24. Naming desire: Information seeking and breaking the silence around queer female desire in mid-twentieth-century Britain

Victoria Golding

25. Beloved: Crafting lesbian desire and femme intimacies with the Ladies of Llangollen

Sarah-Joy Ford
 
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