Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities

Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities

Author
Ulrika Dahl, Del LaGrace Volcano
Language
English
Year
2008
Page
191
ISBN
978-1846686641
File Type
pdf
File Size
25.7 MiB

"Intimate, audacious, and exploding with interpretive trajectories, these images reach beyond their edges to re-invision projects of queer visiual testimony."€”Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley Going beyond identity politics, Femmes of Power is a photographic tribute to a diverse range of queerly feminine subjects whose powerful and intentional redress explodes the meaning of femme for the twenty-first century. Celebrating the growing femme presence, here you will meet members Atlanta’s Femme Mafia, San Francisco’s Harlem Shake Burlesque, and Paris’ Fem Menace. Femmes of Power features both everyday heroines and many queer feminist icons, including Michelle Tea, Virginie Despentes, Amber Hollibaugh, Marla Stewart, Lydia Lunch, Kate Bornstein, and Lois Weaver. The first book of its kind, Femmes of Power unsettles the objectifying male gaze on femininity and presents femmes as speaking subject

show more...

How to Download?!!!

Just click on START button on Telegram Bot

Free Download Book