Looking queer : body image and identity in lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities / Dawn Atkins, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkins, Dawn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--United States--Identity.

Lesbians.

Self-esteem in men.

Body image in men.

Body image in women.

United States.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Body image in women--United States.

Self-esteem in women--United States.

Self-esteem in women.

Gay people--United States--Identity.

Gay people.

Body image in men--United States.

Self-esteem in men--United States.

Physical Description:

li, 467 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Haworth Press, [1998]

Summary:

Bringing together feminism, body image, and sexual orientation, Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities hopes to convince readers that society as a whole needs to redefine our concepts of body image. By looking at body image issues among lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender people and taking differences such as race or disability into consideration, this book bridges gaps left by earlier work and provides a step toward a new focus in the future. This collection, comprised of essays by more than 60 contributors, will help readers find ways to improve their self-esteem and find comfort in their bodies to create a mutually supportive community.

Contents:

Introduction: Looking Queer / Dawn Atkins xxix

Section A Women, Wimmin, Womyn

Part 1 Constructing Ourselves 3

Beauty Is a Beast / Amy Edgington 3

Living into My Body / Nancy Barron 5

Beauty Mandates and the Appearance Obsession: Are Lesbians Any Better Off? / Anna Myers, Jennifer Taub, Jessica F. Morris, Esther D. Rothblum 17

Resistance and Reinscription: Sexual Identity and Body Image Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women / Sara Auerbach, Rebekah Bradley 27

Contradictions of the Spirit: Theories and Realities of Lesbian Body Image / Naomi Tucker 37

Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body / Diane Griffin Crowder 47

Part 2 Looking Dyke 69

The Ugly Dyke / Wendy Chapkis 69

Woman Eats Brownies, Gets Laid / Greta Christina 73

Professionally Q: A Day in the Life of a Career Counselor / Christine Cress 79

The Beauty Norm: A Femme Strikes Back / Anna Myers 83

It's Not What You Wear: Fashioning a Queer Identity / Kate Woolfe 87

Hair Piece / Andrea Askowitz 93

Out-of-Body Experiences / Michele Spring-Moore 99

Movement / Amy Edgington 107

Part 3 Searching a Way Out 109

Vanishing Point / Margo Solod 109

Autobiographical Slices: Life in the Queer Kitchen / Amy Gilley 111

That Other Girl Who Is Not Me / Alexa Leigh 115

Moving Like a Dyke / Clancy McKenna 119

Tattoo Me / Catherine Lundoff 125

Part 4 A Woman's Love Heals 129

Mirror / Nina Silver 129

Big Grrl / Drama Rose 131

Ode to My Vibrator / Susanna Trnka 137

Dressing Room Blues / Claire Hueholt 141

My Ideal Becoming Real / Susie Bullington 145

Part 5 Coming Out, Leaving Behind 153

Coming Out / Darcy Wakefield 153

Power, Beauty, and Dykes / Silva Tenenbein 155

My Big Fat Body / Anna Snoute 161

My Mother's Journals / Jo Schneiderman 163

Be, Being, Becoming / Michelle Bancroft 165

Boogeywoman / Amy Edgington 177

Section B One, Both, Neither

Part 6 Crossing the Divide 181

The Razor's Edge: Walking the Fine Line of the Self / Julie Waters 181

My Life As an Erroneous Sonogram / Marcelle Cook-Daniels, Loree Cook-Daniels 189

Holding My Breath Underwater / Michael Hernandez 199

Part 7 Square Pegs 205

Affronting Reason / Cheryl Chase 205

In(to) Visibility: Intersexuality in the Field of Queer / Morgan Holmes 221

Agdistis' Children: Living Bi-Gendered in a Single-Gendered World / Raven Kaldera 227

Part 8 Boyz, Grrls, Queers 233

Flunking Basic Gender Training: Butches and Butch Style Today / Sherrie A. Inness 233

Frankly Feminine: Rejecting and Embracing Standards for Beauty / Laura Cole 239

Faggot Rant / Sandra Lee Golvin 241

Beautiful Boy: A Girl's Own Story / Boye 245

Section C Beyond the Pale

Part 9 Color Vision 251

"I" is for Intersection: At the Crux of Black and White and Gay and Straight / Layli Phillips 251

Piece of Man: Redefining the Myths Around the Black Male Phallus / Conrad R. Pegues 259

Mapping My Desire: Hunting Down the Male Erotic in India and America / Sandip Roy 271

"Undressing the Oriental Boy": The Gay Asian in the Social Imaginary of the Gay White Male / Paul EeNam Park Hagland 277

I Like My Chi-i-sa-i Body Now / Donna Tsuyuko Tanigawa 295

Part 10 Access to the Look 299

When Pigs Have Wings / Mark O'Brien 299

Inside/Outside / Julia Dolphin Trahan 307

Body Language / Kenny Fries 313

The Imperfections of Beauty: On Being Gay and Disabled / Kenny Fries 315

Love Poem / Kenny Fries 323

Section D Men, Boys, and Trolls

Part 11 The Uniform Doesn't Fit 327

Queer Crash Test Dummies: Theory, Aging, and Embodied Problematics / Dean Kiley 327

Laws of Desire: Has Our Imagery Become Overidealized? / William J. Mann 345

A Matter of Size / Patrick Giles 355

Justify My Love Handles: How the Queer Community Trims the Fat / Jay Blotcher 359

Fatness and the Feminized Man / Ganapati S. Durgadas 367

Part 12 Feeling the Burn 373

But to Hear THEM Tell It ... Or: Looksism, Beauty's Evil Stepsister / Gene-Michael Higney 373

Reps / Jim Provenzano 383

Your Dreamworld Is Just About to End / Frank Martinez Lester 389

Learning the F Words / John Stoltenberg 393

Part 13 Reenvisioning MEN 413

Why I Hate The Beatles and The Supremes / Ozzie Diaz-Duque 413

If Only I Were Cute: Looksism and Internalized Homophobia in the Gay Male Community / Andrew J. Feraios 415

More Than a Sum of Parts: Rescuing the Male Body from Fundamentalism / Darrell g.h. Schramm 431

Skinny, "White" Chicks and Hung, Buff Boys: Queer Sex Spaces and Their Discontents / Jill Nagle 439.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

156023931X

0789004631

OCLC:

38519315