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Femme Bibliography Project: Version 1.4
1) Femme, in theory
Queer femininity meets the academy…
Bell, David, et al (1994). "All hyped up and no place to go."
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography,
1(1). Cauldwell, Jayne (2006). “Femme-fatale: Re-thinking the femme-inine.” In J. Cauldwell (Ed.).
Sport, sexualities and queer/theory
. New York: Routledge. Corber, Robert J. (2005). Cold war femme: Lesbian visibility in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's
All about Eve.”
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
, 11 (1). Cvetkovich, Ann (1995). “Recasting receptivity: Femme sexualities.” In K. Jay (Ed.)
Lesbian erotics.
New York: New York University Press. Douglas, Erin (2004). “Female fem(me)inities: A performative queering.” MA Thesis. Miami U. Douglas, Erin (2007). “Pink heels, dildos and erotic play: The (re)making of fem(me)inity in Showtime’s
The L Word.
” In R. Beirne (Ed.)
Televising queer women: A reader
. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Duggan, Lisa (1988). "The Anguished Cry of an '80s Fem: I Want to Be a Drag Queen."
Out/ Look,
1. Fink, Dagmar (2006) "Cherished as well as Suspicious: Femme Femininities," in W. Holbling, K. Rieser, & S. Rieser (Eds.).
US Icons and Iconicity.
Wein: LIT. Galewski, Elizabeth (2005). “Figuring the feminist femme.”
Women’s Studies in Communication,
28 (2). Galewski, Elizabeth (2008). "‘Playing up being a woman’: Femme performance and the potential for ironic representation.”
Rhetoric & Public Affairs
, 11 (2). Gelbin, Cathy S. (2007). “Double visions: Queer femininity and Holocaust film from
Ostatni Etap
to
Aimée & Jaguar
.”
Women in German Yearbook: Feminist Studies in German Literature & Culture
, 23. Hannabach, Cathy (2008). “Untimely forgetting: Melancholia, sexual dispossession, and queer femininity.”
CSW Update Newsletter
, UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Online: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9m07x3mv
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Harris, Laura (2008). “Confessions of a Pillow Queen: Sexual Receptivity and Queer Femininities.” In M. McAuliffe & S. Tiernan (Eds.).
Tribades, tommies and transgressives; Histories of sexualities: Vol.1.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Harris, Laura & Crocker, Elizabeth (Eds.) (1997).
Femme: Feminists, lesbians, and bad girls
. New York: Routledge. Haller, Martinique (2009). Queer femme representation: Disrupting ‘woman.’”
Thinking Gender Conference,
UCLA. Hemmings, Clare (1999). “Out of sight, out of mind? Theorizing femme narrative.”
Sexualities,
2(4). Hemmings, Clare (2002). “All my life I’ve been waiting for something: Theorising femme narrative in
The Well of Loneliness
.” In L. Doan & J. Prosser (Eds.).
Palatable poison: Critical perspectives on
The Well of Loneliness
.
New York: Columbia University Press. Hemmings, Clare (2007). “Rescuing lesbian camp.”
Journal of Lesbian Studies,
11(2). Hill, Adrienne C. (2009) “Spatial awarishness: Queer women and the politics of fat embodiment.” M.A. Thesis. Graduate College of Bowling Green State University. Holmund, Chris (1991). “When is a lesbian not a lesbian? The lesbian continuum and the mainstream femme film.”
Camera Obscura
, 9 (1/2). Keeling, Kara (2007). The
witch's flight: The cinematic, the black femme, and the image of common sense
. Durham: Duke University Press. Kennedy, Elizabeth & Davis, Madeline (1993).
Boots of leather, slippers of gold: The history of a lesbian community
. New York: Routledge. Levitt, Heidi M., et al, (2003). "The misunderstood gender: A model of modern femme identity."
Sex Roles,
48(3/4). Martin, Biddy (1996).
Femininity played straight: The significance of being lesbian.
New York: Routledge.
Meems, Deborah T. & Gibson, Michelle (Eds) (2002).
Femme/Butch: New considerations of the way we want to go.
New York: Harrington Park Press. Munt, Sally (Ed.) (1998).
Butch/Femme: Inside lesbian gender
. London: Cassell. Peluso, Natalie (2009). "Introducing High-Femme Drag: A Critical Discussion." American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Online: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p309642_index.html
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Probyn, Elspeth (1995). “Lesbians in space. Gender, sex and the structure of missing.”
Gender, Place and Culture,
2(1). *Response to Bell, et al (1994). Ryan, Maura (2009). “‘I will rock some glitter like you’ve never seen’: Burlesque, femme organizations, and the cultural politics of femme movement.” PhD Dissertation. University of Florida.
Serano, Julia (2007).
Whipping girl: A Transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity.
Seattle: Seal Press. Shoemaker, Deanna (2010). “Queer punk macha femme: Leslie Mah’s musical performance in Tribe 8.”
Cultural Studies
!
Critical Methodologies,
10 (2). Shoemaker, Deanna (2007). “Pink Tornados and Volcanic Desire: Lois Weaver's Resistant 'Femme(nini)tease' in ‘Faith and Dancing: Mapping Femininity and Other Natural Disasters.’”
Text and Performance Quarterly
, 27 (4). Straayer, Chris (1998). “
Femme fatale
or lesbian femme:
Bound
in sexual
difference.”
In E. A. Kaplan (Ed.).
Women in film noir.
London: British Film Institute Publishing. VanNewkirk, Robbin (2006). “Gee I didn’t get that vibe from you”: Articulating my own version of a femme lesbian existence.”
Journal of Lesbian Studies,
10(1/2). Walker, Lisa (1993). "How to recognize a Lesbian: The cultural politics of looking like what you are."
SIGNS
, 18(4). Walker, Lisa (1995). "More than just skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity."
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
, 2(1). *Response to Bell, et al (1994). Walker, Lisa (2001).
Looking like what you are: Sexual style, race, and lesbian identity.
New York: New York University Press.
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2) Writing femme
Narratives and memoirs on femme gender, sexuality, community…
Andre, Amy & Chang, Sandy (2006). “‘And then you cut your hair’: Genderfucking on the femme side of the spectrum.” In Mattilda A.K.A M. Bernstein Sycamore (Ed.)
Nobody passes: Rejecting the rules of gender and conformity
. Berkeley: Seal Press.