Butch Queens Up in Pumps
Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
Published on 29. August 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-472-05196-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
Winner, Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, 2015 * Modern Language Association (MLA) Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize * "This study of house/ball culture also makes for yet another example of the positive impact of liberation psychologies at work among people attempting to thrive and survive amid systemic marginalization and dismissal by outgroup members in the wider society."-PsycCRITIQUES -- Michele K. Lewis * PsycCRITIQUES * "Butch Queens Up in Pumps meticulously details how racism, poverty, homophobia and AIDS still challenge the black lgbt community and how Ballroom culture in Detroit provides a space of resistance, yet as a combination of ethnography and memoir, the book reads personally and emotionally in a way that few academic studies achieve."
-Lambda Literary Review -- Chase Dimock * Lambda Literary *
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
21 B-W photographs
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-472-05196-0 (9780472051960)
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Person
Marlon M. Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.