| Description |
1 online resource (x, 243 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-233) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; 1 In Their Natures: Gay Men, Queer Men, and Gendered Strategies of Resistance; 2 Girlymen: Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Effeminacy; 3 Fae Spirits and Gender Trouble: Resistance and Compliance among the Radical Faeries; 4 Bear Bodies, Bear Masculinity: Recuperation, Resistance, or Retreat?; 5 Feeling a Bit under the Leather: Hypermasculinity, Performativity, and the Specter of Starched Chiffon; 6 Fielding Questions, Fielding Possibilities; Notes; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous. In Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen, Peter Hennen contends that this stigma of effeminacy exerts a powerful influence on gay subcultures. Through a comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities, Hennen explores the surprising ways that conventional masculinity is being collectively challenged, subverted, or perpetuated in contemporary gay male culture. Hennen's colorful study focuses on a trio of groups: the Radical Faeries, who parody effeminacy by playfully embracing it, donning p. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gay men -- Psychology.
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Gay men -- Psychology. |
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Male homosexuality.
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Male homosexuality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gay men. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hennen, Peter. Faeries, bears, and leathermen. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226327273 0226327272 (DLC) 2007038591 (OCoLC)173659480 |
| ISBN |
9780226327297 (electronic book) |
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0226327299 (electronic book) |
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1281957135 |
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9781281957139 |
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9780226327273 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226327272 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226327280 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0226327280 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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