Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit

Bailey, Marlon M.

ISBN 10: 0472051962 / ISBN 13: 9780472051960

Published by Univ of Michigan Pr, 2013

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288 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0472051962
• ISBN 13: 9780472051960
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.43 kilograms

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Synopsis

Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines 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.

About the Author

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