Description
Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey's rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community.
Author: Marlon M. Bailey
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 08/29/2013
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780472051960
ISBN10: 0472051962
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | LGBTQ+ Studies | Gay Studies
- Performing Arts | Dance | General
- Performing Arts | Theater | History & Criticism
About the Author
Marlon M. Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.