Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance) - Softcover

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Bailey, Marlon M.

 
9780472051960: Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0472051962 ISBN 13: 9780472051960
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Marlon M. Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0472051962
ISBN 13 
9780472051960
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296

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ISBN 10:  0472071963 ISBN 13:  9780472071968
Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2013
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