Male Femininities / / ed. by Elroi J. Windsor, Dana Berkowitz, C. Winter Han.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Adair, Joshua G.,; Barrett, Rusty,; Beaver, Travis,; Berkowitz, Dana,; Bishop, Katelynn,; Bonvissuto, Stephanie,; Councilor, Kc,; Dansky, Steven F.,; Ehrensaft, Diane,; Grzanka, Patrick R.,; Han, C. Winter,; Hennen, Peter,; Ingram-Waters, Mary,; Knoebel, John,; LeBlanc, Ray,; Mayers, Lester Eugene,; Ostman, Nikola C.,; Pitchford, Kenneth,; Randles, Jennifer,; Scarborough, Roscoe C.,; Schippers, Mimi,; Slesaransky-Poe, Graciela,; Smith, Jesús Gregorio,; Stone, Amy L.,; Tatonetti, Lisa,; Torres, Samantha L.,; Winder, Terrell J. A.,; Windsor, Elroi J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Berkowitz, Dana,; Han, C. Winter,; Windsor, Elroi J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 20 b/w illustrations

Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without womenWhat counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a nuanced, critical collection of essays that highlight the extent to which male femininities are neither an imitation of femaleness nor an emptying of masculinity. These innovative essays focus on both gay and straight men, and transmasculine and genderqueer people in their construction and performance of femininity, thereby revealing the possibilities that open up when we critically examine femininity without women. Male Femininities asks, What does femininity look like for men?The contributors—highly regarded scholars and rising stars—cover a range of topics, including drag queens, cosmetic enhancements, trans fertility, and gender-non-conforming childhoods. Male Femininities illuminates what happens when we decouple femininity from female bodies and how even the smallest cracks and fissures in the normative order can disrupt, challenge, and in some cases reaffirm our existing sex-gender regime. This volume pluralizes the concept of male femininities and leads readers through an exploration of how gender, sex, and sexuality are manifested in the United States today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Defining and Deconstructing Male Femininities -- Part 1. Historicizing Male Femininities -- 1. Toward a Typology and Genealogy of Effeminacies -- 2. The Effeminist Manifesto -- 3. Three Contemplations on “The Effeminist Manifesto” -- Part 2. Configuring Male Femininities -- 4. Pushing (Gender) Hard on the Bike: Navigating Normativities as a Queer Spin Instructor -- 5. The Small ts and the Gender Binary Shake-up: The Girl in the Boy and the Boy in the Girl -- 6. Trapped in the Glass Closet: Feminine Straight Men and the Politics of Coming Out -- 7. Two-Spirit, Not Trans: Joshua Whitehead’s Erotic Sovereignty -- Part 3. Embodying Male Femininities -- 8. Dear Masculinity -- 9. An Interview with Julia Serano -- 10. Unexpected Breasts, Unexpected Pleasures: Exploring Cisgender Men’s Breast Development and Bra Wearing -- 11. Brotox and the Retreat from Male Femininity -- 12. Pregnant Men and Their Reconfigurations of Pregnancy -- Part 4. Performing Male Femininities -- 13. Welcome to the Stage: Power, Practice, and the Performance of Drag Queening -- 14. “In My Dad’s Gun Room, There’s an 8×10 Picture of Me in Drag”: Drag and Respect in the Deep South -- 15. The Fierce World of Gay Asian Drag -- 16. “The Reason You Can Suck a Dick Is Because Some Fem Once Got Beaten Up, Right?” A Case Study of Gender, Race, and Sexuality for Latinx Queer Men -- 17. Radical Cheerbois: Genderqueer Bodies Performing Queer Femininity -- Part 5. Male Femininities and Intimacies -- 18. Unloved -- 19. Assume the Position: Bottom-Shaming among Black Gay Men -- 20. Are Polyamorous Men Embodying Male Femininity? -- 21. Male Femininity as Spirituality among Radical Faeries -- Part 6. Male Femininities and Institutions -- 22. Funeral Rights -- 23. When Our Boys Wished to Be Girls: A Retrospective Look at Parenting Gender-Nonconforming Young Boys -- 24. Negotiating Masculinity in the Fire Service: Accessing Brotherhood or Subverting Gender Norms -- 25. Resisting Femininity in Responsible Fathering: Men and the Gendering of Care in US Fatherhood Policy -- Conclusion: Male Femininities and Dismantling the Binaries and Boundaries of Gender -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- About the Editors -- Index