Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities
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Language: English
Published by Serpent's Tail, 2009
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- Title
- Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities
- Author
- Dahl, Ulrika
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Perfect Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1846686644
- ISBN 13
- 9781846686641
"Intimate, audacious, and exploding with interpretive trajectories, these images reach beyond their edges to re-invision projects of queer visiual testimony."Juana Maria Rodriguez, University of California, Berkeley Going beyond identity politics, Femmes of Power is a photographic tribute to a diverse range of queerly feminine subjects whose powerful and intentional redress explodes the meaning of femme for the twenty-first century. Celebrating the growing femme presence, here you will meet members Atlanta’s Femme Mafia, San Francisco’s Harlem Shake Burlesque, and Paris’ Fem Menace. Femmes of Power features both everyday heroines and many queer feminist icons, including Michelle Tea, Virginie Despentes, Amber Hollibaugh, Marla Stewart, Lydia Lunch, Kate Bornstein, and Lois Weaver. The first book of its kind, Femmes of Power unsettles the objectifying male gaze on femininity and presents femmes as speaking subject
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About the Author
Del LaGrace Volcano is one of the world's leading queer cultural producers, cited and reproduced in numerous publications, journals and books on visual art, as well as queer and feminist theory for the past 15 years. Femmes of Power is his fifth photographic monograph. Ulrika Dahl is a writer, activist and cultural anthropologist. She teaches Gender Studies at Södertörn University College in Stockholm.
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