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Title: The Femme Mystique by Leslea Newman ISBN: 1-55583-255-5 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A wee bit repetitive
Comment: The book was good and I don't regret buying it but I tried to sit down and read it all the way through and soon was bored and frustrated. There are some great essays in there about the butch/femme dynamic and what it means to be a femme in the lesbian community but theres a great deal of repetition and I started feeling like I was reading the same essay over and over.. and over again. It's a nice book, but I won't be re-reading it anytime soon. If I could recommend a book it would be 'Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear' instead.
Rating: 4
Summary: A feminsist/womanist critique of The Femme Mystique
Comment: This book is a poignant analysis of the often dichotomized butch-femme roles within the lesbian community. Via a collection of independent writings, the work highlights an often stigmatized and misunderstood group--the femme lesbian. Through touching, and often sensual stories of love and the search for an identity as "a femme," this book allows a rarely viewed glimpse into the hearts, minds, and bodies of these women. Despite the quality of this book, I would have liked to see more explicit discussion of the lives of femme women of color. Sadly, their absence risks recapitulating the same "othering" that many women in this book discuss. The familiar arguments of feminist/womanist women of color--that we are largely absent from important discourse on women-- can be asserted with this text as well. Nevertheless, it is a powerful book and hopefully future editions will more directly address such issues.
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth Reading, But Don't Blow Your Rent Money On It
Comment: I liked this book. OTOH, I've *loved* all the Leslea Newman books I've read. This work was not written by LN, but edited by her. It has some excellent moments, but if you want a great treatise about what it means to be femme, choose 'Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear'.
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Title: The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle ISBN: 1555831907 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Femme's Guide to the Universe by Shar Rednour ISBN: 1555834612 Publisher: Alyson Pubns Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Dagger: On Butch Women by Lily Burana, Roxxie, Roxxie Linnea Due, Linnea Due ISBN: 0939416824 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg ISBN: 156341029X Publisher: Firebrand Books Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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