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Male Femininities

Male Femininities

Berkowitz, Dana
Han, C. Winter
Windsor, Elroi J.

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General Gender StudiesSexualityWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1479808784
ISBN13: 9781479808786
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Feb 14 2023
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women

What counts as male femininity? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a nuanced, critical collection of essays that highlight the extent to which male femininities are neither an imitation of femaleness nor an emptying of masculinity. These innovative essays focus on both gay and straight men, and transmasculine and genderqueer people in their construction and performance of femininity, thereby revealing the possibilities that open up when we critically examine femininity without women. Male Femininities asks, What does femininity look like for men?

The contributors--highly regarded scholars and rising stars--cover a range of topics, including drag queens, cosmetic enhancements, trans fertility, and gender-non-conforming childhoods. Male Femininities illuminates what happens when we decouple femininity from female bodies and how even the smallest cracks and fissures in the normative order can disrupt, challenge, and in some cases reaffirm our existing sex-gender regime. This volume pluralizes the concept of male femininities and leads readers through an exploration of how gender, sex, and sexuality are manifested in the United States today.

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