Persistence (eBook, ePUB)

All Ways Butch and Femme
Redaktion: Coyote, Ivan; Sharman, Zena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lambda Literary Award finalist

American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book

In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words "butch" or "femme."

Contributors such as Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories), Thea Hillman (Intersex), S. Bear Bergman (Butch is a Noun), Chandra Mayor (All the Pretty Girls), Amber Dawn (Sub Rosa), Anna Camilleri (Brazen Femme), Debra Anderson (Code White), Anne Fleming (Anomaly), Michael V. Smith (Cumberland), and Zoe Whittall (Bottle Rocket Hearts) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It's 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.

Includes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992.

Ivan E. Coyote is the author of seven books (including the novel Bow Grip, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book) and a long-time muser on the trappings of the two-party gender system.

Zena Sharman is the assistant director of Canada's national Institute of Gender and Health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781551524054
• Artikelnr.: 38325064

Autorenporträt

Ivan E. Coyote: Ivan E. Coyote is the author of six books, including the award-winning novel Bow Grip and the story collections The Slow Fix and Missed Her; Ivan has also released two spoken-word CDs and four short films. A renowned storyteller, Ivan frequently performs live across Canada and the US. Zena Sharman: Zena Sharman is a queer femme who works in gender and health research and is in the midst of completing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction by the editors
Amber Dawn
Amy Fox
Anna Camilleri
Anne Fleming
B. Cole
Belinda Carroll
Ben McCoy
Beth Marston
Bevin Branlandingham
Brenda Barnes
Chandra Mayor
Debra Anderson
Donnelly Black
Elaine Miller
Ivan E. Coyote
Jeanne Cordova
Jewelle Gomez
Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
Kimberly Dark
Laiwan
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Melissa Sky
Michael V. Smith
Miriam Pérez
Nairne Holtz
Prince Jei & MissTer Raju Rage
Rae Spoon
Redwolf Painter
romham padraig gallacher
S. Bear Bergman
Sailor Holladay
Sasha T. Goldberg
Sinclair Sexsmith
Stacey Milbern
Thea Hillman
Victoria Brownworth
Zena Sharman
Zoe Whittall