A Femme/Gender/Sexuality Bibliography
compiled by Kami Chisholm

Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Rutledge, 1993.

---. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Rutledge, 1990.

Brownworth, Victoria A., and Susan Raffo. Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability. Seattle: Seal Press, 1999.

Case, Sue-Ellen. "Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic." Discourse 11.1 (1988-89): 55-73.

de Lauretis, Teresa. "Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation." Theatre Journal 40.2 (1988): 155-77.

Gibson, Michelle, and Deborah T. Meem. Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2002.

Harris, Laura, and Elizabeth Crocker. Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Hemmings, Clare. "Rescuing Lesbian Camp." Journal of Lesbian Studies 11.1-2 (Spring 2007) 175-182.

Hollibaugh, Amber L. My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home. Series Q. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000.

Loulan, JoAnn, and Sherry Thomas. The Lesbian Erotic Dance: Butch, Femme, Androgyny, and Other Rhythms. 1st ed. San Francisco: Spinsters Book Co., 1990.

Martin, Biddy. "Sexualities without Genders and Other Queer Utopias." Diacritics 24.2-3 (1994): 104-21.

---. Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian. New York ; London: Routledge, 1996.

Moraga, Cherrie. Loving in the War Years. Boston: South End, 1983.

Munt, Sally, and Cherry Smyth. Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender. London ; Washington: Cassell, 1998.

Nestle, Joan. "The Femme Question." Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Ed. Carole S. Vance. Boston: Routledge, 1984.

---. The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader. 1st ed. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1992.

Newman, Leslea. The Femme Mystique. 1st ed. Boston: Alyson Publications, 1995.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce. S/He. Boston: Allyson Publications, 1992.

Rivière, Joan. "Womanliness as Masquerade." Formations of Fantasy. 1929. Eds. Victor Burgin, James Donald and Cora Kaplan. New York: Methuen, 1986. 35-44.

Robertson, Jennifer Ellen. Butch and Femme on and Off the Takarazuka Stage: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Organization in Japan. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 1989.

Rose, Chloë Brushwood, and Anna Camilleri. Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity. Vancouver: Arsenal, 2002.

Samuels, Ellen. "My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming out Discourse." GLQ 9.1-2 (2003): 233-55.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "Discourses of Sexuality and Subjectivity: The New Woman, 1870-1936." Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

Soares, Manuela, Judy Grahn, and Nisa Donnelly. Butch/Femme. 1st ed. New York: Crown, 1995.

Walker, Lisa. Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

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