Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins

by Kath Weston

In day-to-day life, people often act as if they know exactly what they mean by boys and girls, masculine and feminine, butch and femme. Render Me, Gender Me challenges comfortable assumptions about gender by weaving Kath Weston's own thought-provoking commentary together with the voices of lesbians from a variety of race and class backgrounds.

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

215 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Kath Weston is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. A Guggenheim Fellow and two-time winner of the Ruth Benedict Prize, Weston is the author of several books, including Traveling Light: On the Road with America's Poor; Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age; and Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship.

Reviews

[alayna cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

knowing this book was written in the early 90s, i didn't expect to to find it to be as relevant as i did. i especially resonated with the chapter about childhood, and the way lesbians and people in general tend to shape their own narrative by selectively highlighting parts of their past that correlate with their current sense of self.

[Zach · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is amazing. i recommend it to anyone looking to understand or feel recognized when talking about lesbian gender expressions.