...Lillian Faderman Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 ACTING “WOMAN” AND THINKING “MAN” The Ploys of Famous Female Inverts Lillian Faderman In the 1880s, early in her career, the American suffrage leader Anna Howard Shaw sported what was at that time a distinctly mannish...

...Licia Fiol-Matta Duke University Press 2000 GLQ 6.4-01.Fiol-Matta. 10/4/00 10:06 AM Page 491 “RACE WOMAN” Reproducing the Nation in Gabriela Mistral Licia Fiol-Matta The Chilean poet, educator, and Nobel laureate Gabriela Mistral...

.... Frankfurt: Fischer, 1960 . Fuss , Diana . Freud's Fallen Women: Identification. Desire, and A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman. Yale Journal of Criticism 6 . 1 ( 1993 ): 1 -23. Gay , Peter . Freud: A Life for Our Time . New York: Norton, 1988 . Jones , Ernest . The Life...

... Gaiutra . 2014 . Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Bakr Abu . 2010 . “The Current Advocates of Gay Rights Are Examples of a Neo-Colonialist Tendency.” Stabroek News , March 5 . Barriteau Eudine . 2003 . Confronting Power...

...Jennifer Doyle In a discussion of the problem that Caster Semenya's velocity poses to the category woman, the introduction to this special issue shifts focus from Semenya's body (which has been the topic of much discussion during Semenya's temporary suspension from competition while officials...

... multiple gender and sexual identities within hybrid forms of queer personhood. Through an examination of the figure of the gay woman—not a lesbian or trans subject but, rather, a gay man who is also, alternately a woman—the author argues that sexualities that bridge the paradoxical impasse between...

...Alexandra Juhasz In its time, at the Woman's Building, video played a central role in a unique feminist art education organized around the dangers of female representation and its associated pleasures of self-realization. Its collective video practices developed to acknowledge simultaneous points...

...Janice Gould This personal essay discusses the life and death of the author's father, who late in life changed genders to become a “trans-woman.” The essay deals with the author's conflicted feelings about this transformation. Duke University Press 2010 (Concow) My Father, Cynthia...

... fatherhood. I focus on the television serial drama Ima VeAbbaz ( Mom and Dads ), whose protagonists are two gay men who have a child with a straight woman. I argue that the show manages to deviate from the usual representation of the gay father, thereby offering an ideological alternative to conventional...

... literature that allows for its reclamation for lesbian use. Furthermore, the essay demands a return to the terminology associated with lesbianism, rather than queerness, because of the woman-centeredness of the texts at hand, structural elements drawn from lesbian sexual and relational practices...

...Cameron Crookston When Fox 21 Television Studios announced that Laverne Cox would play the role of Frank N. Furter in their 2016 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again , most public response circled around how Cox’s visible political identity as a trans woman spoke...

... the ‘free woman’ stands at.”1 In Novem- ber 1974 Evi Seidman, editor of So’s Your Old Lady, the newsletter of Minne- apolis’s Lesbian Resource Center, countered the love poetry that had recently flooded its pages with a proposal that just as “whatever a woman says expresses her feminism,” so anything...

...” [If I were a woman]. Although I never specified who was to address which topic, the students, predictably, chose to imagine being the sex they were not. Girls often approached the assignment as a forum in which to voice complaints about gender inequities (e.g...

... “obsession” and as a cure for the fre- quent nocturnal emissions he saw as ruinous to his health. But he also acknowl- edged that he saw himself as a woman, preferred “to possess one less mark of the male,” and hoped castration would eliminate his facial hair, which he considered his “most detested...

... the woman of feeling in Mary Wollstonecraft’s early senti- 474 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES mental novel, Mary: A Fiction (1788). By placing whipping women in pornography alongside feeling femmes in the novel, I demonstrate how the two develop a simi- lar relation...

... characteristic that distinguished them from heterosexuals may explain this dra- matic development. In this context, the femme’s femininity posed an even greater threat to the dominant order than did the butch’s masculinity. Virtually indistin- guishable from that of the straight woman, the femme’s...