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Femme Bibliography Project: Version 1.1

Andre, Amy & Chang, Sandy (2006). “‘And then you cut your hair’: Genderfucking on thefemme side of the spectrum.” In Mattilda A.K.A M. Bernstein Sycamore (Ed.) Nobodypasses: Rejecting the rules of gender and conformity. Berkeley: Seal Press.

Bell, David, et al (1994). "All hyped up and no place to go." Gender, Place & Culture: AJournal of Feminist Geography, 1(1).

Brushwood Rose, Chloe & Camilleri, Anna (Eds) (2002). Brazen femme: Queering femininity.Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press.

Burke, Jennifer Clare (Ed.) (2009). Visible: A femmethology, volume 1. Ypsilanti: HomofactusPress.

Burke, Jennifer Clare (Ed.) (2009). Visible: A femmethology, volume 2. Ypsilanti: HomofactusPress.

Cross, Jen (2006). “Surface Tensions.” In Mattilda A.K.A M. Bernstein Sycamore (Ed.) Nobodypasses: Rejecting the rules of gender and conformity. Berkeley: Seal Press.

Douglas, Erin (2004). “Female fem(me)inities: A performative queering.” MA Thesis. Miami U.

Douglas, Erin (2007). “Pink heels, dildos and erotic play: The (re)making of fem(me)inity inShowtime’s The L Word.” In R. Beirne (Ed.) Televising queer women: A reader. NewYork: Palgrave Macmillan.

Duggan, Lisa (1988). "The Anguished Cry of an '80s Fem: I Want to Be a Drag Queen." Out/Look, 1.

Fink, Dagmar (2006) "Cherished as well as Suspicious: Femme Femininities," in W. Holbling,K. Rieser, & S. Rieser (Eds.). US Icons and Iconicity. Wein: LIT.

Hardy, Tara (2000). “Femme dyke slut.” In L. Damsky (Ed.). Sex and single girls: Straight andqueer women on sexualities. Seattle: Seal Press.

Harris, Laura (2008). “Confessions of a Pillow Queen: Sexual Receptivity and QueerFemininities.” In M. McAuliffe & S. Tiernan (Eds.). Tribades, tommies andtransgressives; Histories of sexualities: Vol.1. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Harris, Laura & Crocker, Elizabeth (Eds.) (1997). Femme: Feminists, lesbians, and bad girls.New York: Routledge.

Haller, Martinique (2009). Queer femme representation: Disrupting ‘woman.’” Thinking GenderConference, UCLA.

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Hemmings, Clare (1999). “Out of sight, out of mind? Theorizing femme narrative.” Sexualities,2(4).

Hemmings, Clare (2007). “Rescuing lesbian camp.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 11(2).

Keeling, Kara (2007). The witch's flight: The cinematic, the black femme, and the image ofcommon sense. Durham: Duke University Press.

Kennedy, Elizabeth & Davis, Madeline (1993). Boots of leather, slippers of gold: The history ofa lesbian community. New York: Routledge.

Levitt, Heidi M., et al, (2003). "The misunderstood gender: A model of modern femme identity."Sex Roles, 48(3/4).

Martin, Biddy (1996). Femininity played straight: The significance of being lesbian. New York:Routledge.

Meems, Deborah T. & Gibson, Michelle (Eds) (2002). Femme/Butch: New considerations of theway we want to go. New York: Harrington Park Press.

Munt, Sally (Ed.) (1998). Butch/Femme: Inside lesbian gender. London: Cassell.

Nestle, Joan (1987). A restricted country. San Francisco: Cleis Press.

Nestle, Joan (Ed.) (1992). The persistent desire: A femme-butch reader. Boston: Alyson Books.

Nestle, Joan (1998). A fragile union: New and selected writings by Joan Nestle. San Francisco:Cleis Press.

Newman, Leslea (Ed.) (1995). The femme mystique. Boston: Alyson.

Pratt, Minnie Bruce (1995). S/he. Ann Arbor: Firebrand Books.

Probyn, Elspeth (1995). “Lesbians in space. Gender, sex and the structure of missing.” Gender,Place and Culture, 2(1). *Response to Bell, et al (1994).

Rednour, Shar (2000). The femme’s guide to the universe. Boston: Alyson Books.

Serano, Julia (2007). Whipping girl: A Transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating offemininity. Seattle: Seal Press.

VanNewkirk, Robbin (2006). “Gee I didn’t get that vibe from you”: Articulating my own versionof a femme lesbian existence.” Journal of Lesbian Studies, 10(1/2).

Volcano, Del LaGrace & Dahl, Ulrika (2008). Femmes of power: Exploding queer femininities.London: Serpant’s Tail.

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Walker, Lisa (1993). "How to recognize a Lesbian: The cultural politics of looking like what youare." SIGNS, 18(4).

Walker, Lisa (1995). "More than just skin-deep: Fem(me)ininity and the subversion of identity."Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 2(1). *Response to Bell, etal (1994).

Walker, Lisa (2001). Looking like what you are: Sexual style, race, and lesbian identity. NewYork: New York University Press.