Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender

by Sally R. Munt (Editor)

The first collection to focus on butch-femme identities since the highly-acclaimed "Persistent Desire" (edited by Joan Nestle), this book attempts to theorize butch-femme in the context of current debates on masculinity, femininity, and gender-as-performance. 40 photos.

Genres: Queer, Nonfiction, LGBT, Lesbian, Butch Femme, Gender, Essays

244 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1997

About the author

Sally Rowena Munt, DPhil. is Professor and Director of the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies. She has published widely on cultures of otherness and social justice, and is the author of Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame (Ashgate 2007).

Reviews

[Aly]

Dense, intense, sometimes dry, but with some great pictures. I admit I haven't read it straight through but just having this book in my collection makes me feel all warm and fuzzy--which incidentally is also how the cover makes me feel.

[Susanna]

Hours of fun.

[Amy]

I read only parts of this book and plan to revisit it in the future. The mix of academic and personal writing side by side is a little off-putting, but it is both informative and relatable.

[Jessica Stein]

Read in college for a big survey/paper I did on butch/femme (my obsession at the time). Helpful.