Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad GirlsLaura Harris, Elizabeth Crocker IFemme seeks to redress the ways that femme identities have been elided, idealized, or not fully historicized in a productive reconsideration of lesbian and butch-femme history, of feminism, and of queer thought. As a feminist project, IFemme offers an alliance between many communities of women previously passed over by feminism. Contributors: Leah Lilith Albrecht-Samarasinha, Barbara Cruikshank, Madeline Davis, Heather Findlay, Jewelle Gomez, Kelly Hankin, Leslie Henson, Amber Hollibaugh, Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Mabel Maney, Katherine Millersdaughter, Joan Nestle, Lisa Ortiz, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Rebecca Ann Rugg, Gaby Sandoval, Marcy Sheiner, Alex Robertson Textor. |
Contents
ཛུ | 1 |
Fems in the 1940s and 1950s | 15 |
Revisiting A Study of a Public Lesbian Community | 40 |
An Interview with Madeline Davis | 52 |
Femme Subjectivity and Class Relations | 61 |
An Interview with Mabel Maney | 68 |
Dresses for My Round Brown Body 22 | 82 |
Sex Class and Feminist Agency | 93 |
A Womans Prerogative | 131 |
On Being a Bisexual Femme | 138 |
An Interview with Jewelle Gomez | 145 |
A Soap Opera in Many Acts and | 163 |
Passing Loquería | 170 |
An Interview with | 190 |
Some Particularities | 198 |
An Interview with Amber Hollibaugh | 210 |
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