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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"BUTCH"”.
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Butch
“Butch” is a 7-minute romantic comedy following the trials of Butch, a large left boob who struggles with his masculinity, as he works to impress his new crush in unfortunately toxic ways. Butch may or may not end up getting the girl, but in trying he goes through anxiety, humiliation, and a …
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Nail Polish and Polos: The Workplace Experiences of Out Femme and Butch Lesbians
… derogatory speech. It is likely that femme and butch lesbians experience sexual discrimination, prejudice, and bias differently. Femme lesbians present themselves as stereotypically feminine. Stereotypical feminine presentation includes wearing dresses or skirts, exposing cleavage, wearing …
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Will the real lesbians please stand up? : butch/fem and creations of authentic lesbian identity
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1994.
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Contemprary lesbian genders: A queer/ sociological approach
… on sexuality, queer theory and feminist work on butch/femme. Lesbian identities are constructed at the intersection of specific discourses, structures and conscious agency. There is a lack of sociological element in queer theory but I am interested in the potential for developing this despite the …
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Butch, Femme, Dyke, Or Lipstick, Aren't All Lesbians The Same?: An Exploration Of Labels And "Looks" Among Lesbians In The U.S. South
<p>This thesis is an exploratory qualitative sociological analysis of gender, sexuality, and race among "out" lesbians in the U.S. south. In this thesis, I explore the following questions: (1) what labels are self-identified lesbians in the south using and/or applying to themselves, and how do they …
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Lesbian adolescents' narratives of identity : a participatory photovoice project
… participated. Twelve participants identified as butch lesbians and two identified as bisexual. The study used Photovoice, a participatory action research (PAR) method. The participants were trained in photography and took photographs that represented a story that they wanted to tell about their …
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A New Space (new) for Mixed Jazz Chamber Ensemble
… Brown and his open form orchestral innovations, Butch Morris with his ©Conduction improvisation techniques, and Walter Thompson and his ©Soundpainting method. The inspiration for the scoring and directions for rehearsing and conducting improvisation in this work owe their synthesis to these and …
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Sexuality, Identity and the Clothed Male Body
… 2010) - and two chapters in edited books - ‘Butch Queens in Macho Drag: Gay Men, Dress and Subcultural Identity’ (2008) and ‘Hair and Male (Homo)Sexuality: Up-Top and Down Below’ (2008). Through an examination of the major themes addressed throughout the submitted body of work – sexuality, …
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Furious Females: Women's Writing as an Archive of Anger
… subjects to come into view in Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues and Morris’s A Dangerous Woman. Chapter three explores the ways anger can interrupt and complicate compassionate reader responses to gender based abuse in Sapphire’s Push and Mosionier’s In Search of April Raintree. Chapter four explores …
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
… gender disruption functions as a mechanism of butch erotic power in Sarah Waters’ Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music (2011). Chapter three reads biofictions by Donoghue to posit that lesbian neo-Victorian biofiction of queer historical subjects crafts a lesbian genealogy …
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Down Low Under the Big Sky
… and Montana is to know when and how to `butch up' or `cowboy up." One means of maintaining this sense of "camouflage" adopted by rural men is to remain on the down low about their same-sex sexual activity. A desire for increased social support and a more accepting social environment …
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Down Low Under the Big Sky
… and Montana is to know when and how to `butch up' or `cowboy up." One means of maintaining this sense of "camouflage" adopted by rural men is to remain on the down low about their same-sex sexual activity. A desire for increased social support and a more accepting social environment …
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Queering Irish Women's Writing in the Twentieth Century
… archival research and queer theories of (stone) butch sexualities, I seek out the stigmatised, pathologised, racialised and unrespectable forms of deviance that haunt her construction of a modern Irish queer identity. Chapter Three considers the Anglo-Irish Elizabeth Bowen’s melancholic …
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EXILES OF HETERONORMATIVITY: QUEER REPRODUCTION AND FEMALE SAME-SEX FAMILIES IN SINGAPORE
In Singapore, same-sex desires and practices are treated as antithetical to the Family. This dissertation challenges the rhetorical monolith of the traditional family by documenting intimate stories of alternative reproduction from the experiences of female citizens who have been treated as exiles …