Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins Hardcover - 1996
by Kath Weston
In day-to-day life, people often act as if they know exactly what they mean by boys and girls, masculine and feminine, butch and femme. Render Me, Gender Me challenges comfortable assumptions about gender by weaving Kath Weston's own thought-provoking commentary together with the voices of lesbians from a variety of race and class backgrounds.
From the rear cover
In day-to-day-life, people often act as if they know exactly what they mean by boys and girls, mamas and papas, masculine and feminine, butch and femme, stud and fluff. But what happens to gender in same-sex relationships? Can different women be differently gendered? If you accept that gender is as much about race and class and nation as it is about sexuality, what happens to commonly accepted "truths" about gender and identity? Render Me, Gender Me challenges comfortable assumptions about gender by weaving Kath Weston's own thought-provoking commentary together with the voices of lesbians from a variety of race and class backgrounds. Nuns, strippers, teachers, carpenters, small business owners, and women in the military all find a place in this spirited account. At the heart of the book are interviews Weston draws upon to give a new twist to contemporary discussions of gender. Among the topics discussed are gender as a multicultural subject, power play in lesbian relationships, lusting after "fluidity", writing gender into lesbian history, the tomboy mystique, the latent tendency to imagine gender as a sliding scale, the impact of job markets and race relations on the way women gender themselves, the guessing games people play when they pin one another down with respect to gender, why "who's the man?" is the wrong question to ask about lesbian couples, and why gender is not about "imitation" or "roles".
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- Title Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins
- Author Kath Weston
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 215
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, NY
- Date 1996-10
- ISBN 9780231096423 / 0231096429
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.22 x 0.86 in (23.67 x 15.80 x 2.18 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Library of Congress subjects Sex role - United States, Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96014888
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.489
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Citations
- Library Journal, 02/01/1997, Page 98
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