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Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
Marlon M. Bailey
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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.
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Cover
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Preface
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Contents
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ONE. Introduction: Performing Gender, Creating Kinship, Forging Community
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TWO. “Ain't Nothing Like a Butch Queen”: The Gender System in Ballroom Culture
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THREE. From Home to House: Ballroom Houses, Platonic Parents, and Overlapping Kinship
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FOUR. “It's Gonna Get Severe Up in Here”: Ball Events, Ritualized Performance, and Black Queer Space
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FIVE. “They Want Us Sick”: Ballroom Culture and the Politics of HIV/AIDS
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Epilogue: The Future of Ballroom Culture
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Notes
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Glossary: Ballroom Community Terms and Phrases
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 978-0-472-02937-2 (ebook)
- 978-0-472-07196-8 (hardcover)
- 978-0-472-05196-0 (paper)