In this Book
- Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theate
summary
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 this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey’s rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-7
- Preface: Courageously Queer
- pp. vii-xiv
- Epilogue: The Future of Ballroom Culture
- pp. 221-228
- Bibliography
- pp. 255-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472029372
Related ISBN(s)
9780472051960, 9780472071968
MARC Record
OCLC
859154777
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2013-10-21
Language
English
Open Access
No