Butch and femme

realized that they needed to protect themselves, and the group was to make sure they weren’t pushed around. The word “queer” was used and often times use violence. Butch lesbians were often prone to violence and so they learned to fight back. Often, for butch lesbians, they were forced to look as masculine as possible in order to take femme lesbians on dates. In the mean-time, men…

The Stonewall Rebellion serves as an iconic and salient symbol of the modern gay rights movement- recently President Obama affirmed its relevance and power through designating Stonewall and the surrounding neighborhood as a National Historic Site. Through his monumentalizing of the Stonewall National Monument as part of America’s National Park System Obama attests to the vitality of LGBTQ+ culture in America, saying, “I believe our national parks should reflect the full story of our country, the…

“Nowhere is there any mention of how the Agency Line might differentially impact individuals in the U.S. who are born into and/or identify with the female sex category across a range of gender and sexual identities (e.g., cisgender, lesbian, bisexual, femme, butch, transfeminine, genderqueer or transmasculine individuals). In a paper attempting to create and model of young women 's sexuality in the the contemporary United States, the omission of gender and sexual diversity alone is striking,…

bad, lesbian vs. non-lesbian, femme vs. butch, inclusion vs. exclusion, black vs. white, S&M roles, etc. It seems that, as Ruby Rich (Bad Object-Choices, 1991: 275) observed, the purpose of such dichotomy, or rather such flattening of lesbian characters, is to create "a form of differentiation…

Before Stonewall gives an accurate overview of the progression and regression of gays in society throughout the 20th century by utilizing primary sources who witnessed and were involved in some of the most important historical events surrounding gay rights. By tracing back these key events, we can see how society influenced the position of unconventional groups and prevent a prejudiced repeat of history. In the early 1900’s and 1910’s, homosexuality was believed to be a mental illness that…

For example, Johnson discusses that gays and lesbians challenge the patriarchal assumptions and arrangements of a heterosexual couple. The common stereotype of the patriarchal heterosexual couple of the dominant female as “butch” and the other female “femme”. In addition, patriarchy values of men and women are viewed differently. For instance, if a women were to wear a tuxedo is it seemed as dress up which is acceptable, whereas if a man were to wear a dress it would not be acceptable,…

Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber’s “The Spread of the Cult of Thinness” is a chapter from her book The Cult of Thinness that was published in 2007. She is a professor of sociology at Boston College and directed its Women’s Studies program. She is also the director of the National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. The author is trying to figure out why eating disorders are common among women. Her purpose for writing this is to explain connections that she sees between ritualized…

Within Japanese Animation and Manga, numerous themes can run through a series. One theme that has become more prominent since the 1990s is the role of women, as well as traditional gender roles, within this medium. This is all because of the Sailor Moon Manga by Naoko Takeuchi, which when it was adapted into an Animation revolutionised the ‘magical girl’ genre and brought these themes into question. This essay will use the source material to look at how traditional gender roles are displayed…

At the time of Tom Boellstorff’s (2007) article ‘Queer Studies in the House of Anthropology,’ little anthropological research had been undertaken in the realm of non-normative sexualities and genders in non-western contexts. Along with this, there was a lack of scholarship on female non-normative sexualities in both western and non-western contexts. Boellstorff (2007:21) argued that this gap in anthropological research was due to a range of factors; particularly the continued barriers women face…