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| Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ivan E Coyote; Zena Sharman |
| ISBN: | 9781551523972 1551523973 |
| OCLC Number: | 669754853 |
| Description: | 312 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Forward! / Joan Nestle -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman -- Ride / Anna Camilleri -- My first lover was not a lesbian / Kimberly Dark -- Coming back around to butch / Miriam Zoila Pérez -- A dad called mum / Anne Fleming -- A beautiful creature / Karleen Pendleton Jiménez -- Never be hungry again / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- Femme butch feminist / Jewelle Gomez -- Home/sickness: self-diagnosis / romham padraig gallacher -- Looking straight at you / Zena Sharman -- A butch roadmap / Ivan E. Coyote -- To all the butches I loved between 1995 and 2005: an open letter about selling sex, selling out, and soldiering on / Amber Dawn -- Brother dog / S. Bear Bergman -- Butch is how I feel / Brenda Barnes -- Slide rules / Nairne Holtz -- Embodying hunger and desire with a fistful of bliss / Laiwan -- Between my fingers / Stacey Milbern -- Masculine of centre, seeks her refined femme / B. Cole -- No butches, no femmes: the mainstreaming of queer sexuality / Victoria A. Brownworth -- What we know to be true / Sasha T. Goldberg -- Me, Simone, and Dot / Chandra Mayor -- For Annie B. (1915-81) / Donnelly Black -- Split myself apart / Redwolf Painter -- With both fists: conscious gender building through the butch and femme identities / Sinclair Sexsmith -- A guide to getting laid by a girl in lipstick and high heels / Belinda Carroll -- A patch of bright flowers / Zoe Whittall -- Rogue femininity / Elizabeth Marston -- Changed sex. Grew boobs. Starting wearing a tie / Amy Fox -- The new politics of butch / Jeanne Córdova -- Femme cowboy / Rae Spoon -- Futch: thoughts from the borderlands / Elaine Miller -- Butch-femme as spiritual practice / Thea Hillman -- Rethinking high maintenance: the queer fat femme guide to not blaming it on the fact that you don't like high femmes / Bevin Branlandingham -- 38 B / Sailor Holladay -- baby butch: a love letter from the future / Melissa Sky -- Female masculinity, male femininity, feminine masculinity, masculine femininity ...? / Prince Jei and Misster Raju Rage -- Backstage with Lady Gaga / Ben McCoy -- Femme shark manifesto! / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- A failed man / Michael V. Smith -- Spotlight / Debra Anderson -- Hats off / Ivan E. Coyote. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Ivan E. Coyote & Zena Sharman. |
Abstract:
"Persistence is a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today's ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come."--P. [4] of cover.
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