
Butch Queens Up in Pumps
Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
Marlon M. Bailey(Author)
The University of Michigan Press
Published on 29. August 2013
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-472-07196-8 (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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ann Arbor
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
21 B-W photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-472-07196-8 (9780472071968)
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Marlon M. Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.