Looking queer : body image and identity in lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities / Dawn Atkins, editor.
| Other author | Atkins, Dawn. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Haworth Press, ©1998. |
| Description | 1 online resource (li, 467 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Beauty is a beast / Amy Edgington -- Living into my body / Nancy Barron -- Beauty mandates and the appearance of obsession: are lesbians any better off? / Anna Myers [and others] -- Resistance and reinscription: sexual identity and body image among lesbian and bisexual women / Sara Auerbach, Rebekah Bradley -- Contradictions of the spirit: theories and realities of lesbian body image / Naomi Tucker -- Lesbians and the (re/de)construction of the female body / Diane Griffin Crowder -- The ugly dyke / Wendy Chapkis -- Woman eats brownies, gets laid / Greta Christina -- Professionally Q: a day in the life of a career counselor / Christine Cress -- The beauty norm: a femme strikes back / Anna Myers. |
| Contents | It's not what you wear: fashioning a queer identity / Kate Woolfe -- Hair piece / Andrea Askowitz -- Out-of-body experiences / Michele Spring-Moore -- Movement / Amy Edgington -- Vanishing point / Margo Solod -- Autobiographical slices: life in the queer kitchen / Amy Gilley -- That other girl who is not me / Alexa Leigh -- Moving like a dyke / Clancy McKenna -- Tattoo me / Catherine Lundoff -- Mirror / Nina Silver -- Big Grrl / Drama Rose -- Ode to my vibrator / Susanna Trnka -- Dressing room blues / Claire Hueholt -- My ideal becoming real / Susie Bullington -- Coming out / Darcy Wakefield -- Power, beauty, and dykes / Silva Tenenbein -- My big fat body / Anna Snoute -- My mother's journals / Jo Schneiderman. |
| Contents | Be, being, becoming / Michelle Bancroft -- Boogeywoman / Amy Edgington -- The razor's edge: walking the fine line of the self / Julie Waters -- My life as an erroneous sonogram / Marcelle Cook-Daniels, Loree Cook-Daniels -- Holding my breath underwater / Michael Hernandez -- Affronting reason / Cheryl Chase -- In(to)visibility: intersexuality in the field of queer / Morgan Holmes -- Agdistis' children: living bi-gendered in a single-gendered world / Raven Kaldera -- Flunking basic gender training: butches and butch style today / Sherrie A. Inness -- Frankly feminine: rejecting and embracing standards for beauty / Laura Cole -- Faggot rant / Sandra Lee Golvin -- Beautiful boy: a girl's own story / Boye. |
| Contents | "I" is for intersection: at the crux of black and white and gay and straight / Layli Phillips -- Piece of man: redefining the myths around the black male phallus / Conrad R. Pegues -- Mapping my desire: hunting down the male erotic in India and America / Sandip Roy -- "Undressing the oriental boy": the gay Asian in the social imaginary of the gay white male / Paul EeNam Park Hagland -- I like my Chi-i-sa-i body now / Donna Tsuyuko Tanigawa -- When pigs have wings / Mark O'Brien -- Inside/outside / Julia Dolphin Trahan -- Body language / Kenny Fries -- The imperfections of beauty: on being gay and disabled / Kenny Fries -- Love poem / Kenny Fries -- Queer crash test dummies: theory, aging, and embodied problematics / Dean Kiley. |
| Contents | Laws of desire: has our imagery become overidealized? / William J. Mann -- A matter of size / Patrick Giles -- Justify my love handles: how the queer community trims the fat / Jay Blotcher -- Fatness and the feminized man / Ganapati S. Durgadas -- But to hear THEM tell it ... or: looksism, beauty's evil stepsister / Gene-Michael Higney -- Reps / Jim Provenzano -- Your dreamworld is just about to end / Frank Martinez Lester -- Learning the F words / John Stoltenberg -- Why I hate the Beatles and The Supremes / Ozzie Diaz-Duque -- If only I were cute: looksism and internalized homophobia in the gay male community / Andrew J. Feraios -- More than a sum of parts: rescuing the male body from fundamentalism / Darrell g.h. Schramm -- Skinny, "white" chicks and hung, buff boys: queer sex spaces and their discontents / Jill Nagle. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Looking queer. New York : Haworth Press, ©1998 156023931X |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781136380129 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1136380124 (electronic bk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |