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: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780472071968
ISBN10: 0472071963
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black 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.