Butch Queens Up in Pumps : Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit /
"Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ann Arbor, Michigan :
University of Michigan Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : performing gender, creating kinship, forging community
- "Ain't nothing like a Butch queen" : the gender system in ballroom culture
- From home to house : ballroom houses, platonic parents, and overlapping kinship
- "It's gonna get severe up in here" : ball events, ritualized performance, and black queer space
- "They want us sick" : ballroom culture and the politics of HIV/AIDS
- Epilogue: The future of ballroom culture.