Sissy insurgencies :
a racial anatomy of unfit manliness /
Marlon B. Ross.

Description

Main Author

Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956-

Language(s)

English

Published

©2022
Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Subjects

Sex role.
Masculinity.
Male homosexuality.
Gender nonconformity.
Gender identity.
Effeminacy.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / Gay Studies.
Male homosexuality > Male homosexuality / United States > Male homosexuality / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121835 / History > Male homosexuality / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121835 / History / 20th century.
Gender nonconformity > Gender nonconformity / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007003716 / United States > Gender nonconformity / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007003716 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History > Gender nonconformity / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007003716 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History / 20th century.
Masculinity > Masculinity / United States > Masculinity / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107270 / History > Masculinity / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107270 / History / 20th century.
Gender identity.
Sex role > Sex role / United States > Sex role / United States / History > Sex role / United States / History / 20th century.
Effeminacy > Effeminacy / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011000957 / United States > Effeminacy / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011000957 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History > Effeminacy / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011000957 / United States / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 / History / 20th century.
United States.
History.

Summary

"In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that is expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He reconsiders several black leaders, intellectuals, musicians, and athletes within the context of sissiness, from Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and James Baldwin to Little Richard, Amiri Baraka, and Wilt Chamberlain. Whether examining Washington's practice of cleaning as an iteration of sissiness, James Baldwin's self-fashioned sissy deportment, or sissiphobia in professional sports and black nationalism, Ross demonstrates that sissiness can be embraced and exploited to conform to American gender norms or disrupt racialized patriarchy. In this way, sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of race and gender"--

Physical Description

x, 440 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN

147801783X
9781478017837
1478015217
9781478015215

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