1st Edition

Queering Femininity Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation

By Hannah McCann Copyright 2018
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body. Drawing on a range of feminist texts and interviews with self-identifying queer femmes from the LGBTQ community, Hannah McCann argues that the tendency to evaluate femininity as only either oppressive or empowering limits our... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Defining Femininity

Chapter One: The Binds of Femininity

Chapter Two: Feminism Lost in the Feminine Body

Chapter Three: Feminism without Anti-Femininity 

Chapter Four: The Invisible Femme

Chapter Five: The Feminist Femme 

Chapter Six: Feeling Femme

Conclusion: What is Queer about Femininity?

References

Index

Biography

Hannah McCann is a lecturer in gender studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research explores questions of gender presentation, sexuality, identity, beauty, and aesthetic labour. She has published in the Australian Humanities Review, Australian Feminist Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly, and continues to write on topics including the history of feminism, postfeminism, affect theory, and queer femininity.