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Butch Queens Up in Pumps
Marlon M. Bailey
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Description for Butch Queens Up in Pumps
Paperback. 20 years after "Paris Is Burning," a rare look at Ballroom culture from the inside" Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASDR; JFCA; JFSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps uniquely explores the ways in which Black LGBT people in Detroit use performance and other cultural practices—such as alternative identity, kinship, and community formations—to contend with or alter the conditions in which they live.
Butch Queens Up in Pumps is as much an examination of Black queer cultural formations as it is an ethnographic account of Ballroom culture in Detroit. Marlon M. Bailey’s rare perspective as both ... Read more
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps uniquely explores the ways in which Black LGBT people in Detroit use performance and other cultural practices—such as alternative identity, kinship, and community formations—to contend with or alter the conditions in which they live.
Butch Queens Up in Pumps is as much an examination of Black queer cultural formations as it is an ethnographic account of Ballroom culture in Detroit. Marlon M. Bailey’s rare perspective as both ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472051960
SKU
V9780472051960
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About Marlon M. Bailey
Marlon M. Bailey is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and American Studies at Indiana University, USA.
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