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" Looking queer : "
Dawn Atkins, editor.
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881273
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Looking queer : : body image and identity in lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender communities /\ Dawn Atkins, editor.
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New York :: Haworth Press,, ©1998.
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li, 467 pages ;; 22 cm
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0789004631
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: 156023931X
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: 9780789004635
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: 9781560239314
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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"I" is for intersection: at the crux of black and white and gay and straight / Layli Phillips -- Piece of man: redefining the myths around the black male phallus / Conrad R. Pegues -- Mapping my desire: hunting down the male erotic in India and America / Sandip Roy -- "Undressing the oriental boy": the gay Asian in the social imaginary of the gay white male / Paul EeNam Park Hagland -- I like my Chi-i-sa-i body now / Donna Tsuyuko Tanigawa -- When pigs have wings / Mark O'Brien -- Inside/outside / Julia Dolphin Trahan -- Body language / Kenny Fries -- The imperfections of beauty: on being gay and disabled / Kenny Fries -- Love poem / Kenny Fries -- Queer crash test dummies: theory, aging, and embodied problematics / Dean Kiley.
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Be, being, becoming / Michelle Bancroft -- Boogeywoman / Amy Edgington -- The razor's edge: walking the fine line of the self / Julie Waters -- My life as an erroneous sonogram / Marcelle Cook-Daniels, Loree Cook-Daniels -- Holding my breath underwater / Michael Hernandez -- Affronting reason / Cheryl Chase -- In(to)visibility: intersexuality in the field of queer / Morgan Holmes -- Agdistis' children: living bi-gendered in a single-gendered world / Raven Kaldera -- Flunking basic gender training: butches and butch style today / Sherrie A. Inness -- Frankly feminine: rejecting and embracing standards for beauty / Laura Cole -- Faggot rant / Sandra Lee Golvin -- Beautiful boy: a girl's own story / Boye.
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Beauty is a beast / Amy Edgington -- Living into my body / Nancy Barron -- Beauty mandates and the appearance of obsession: are lesbians any better off? / Anna Myers [and others] -- Resistance and reinscription: sexual identity and body image among lesbian and bisexual women / Sara Auerbach, Rebekah Bradley -- Contradictions of the spirit: theories and realities of lesbian body image / Naomi Tucker -- Lesbians and the (re/de)construction of the female body / Diane Griffin Crowder -- The ugly dyke / Wendy Chapkis -- Woman eats brownies, gets laid / Greta Christina -- Professionally Q: a day in the life of a career counselor / Christine Cress -- The beauty norm: a femme strikes back / Anna Myers.
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It's not what you wear: fashioning a queer identity / Kate Woolfe -- Hair piece / Andrea Askowitz -- Out-of-body experiences / Michele Spring-Moore -- Movement / Amy Edgington -- Vanishing point / Margo Solod -- Autobiographical slices: life in the queer kitchen / Amy Gilley -- That other girl who is not me / Alexa Leigh -- Moving like a dyke / Clancy McKenna -- Tattoo me / Catherine Lundoff -- Mirror / Nina Silver -- Big Grrl / Drama Rose -- Ode to my vibrator / Susanna Trnka -- Dressing room blues / Claire Hueholt -- My ideal becoming real / Susie Bullington -- Coming out / Darcy Wakefield -- Power, beauty, and dykes / Silva Tenenbein -- My big fat body / Anna Snoute -- My mother's journals / Jo Schneiderman.
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Laws of desire: has our imagery become overidealized? / William J. Mann -- A matter of size / Patrick Giles -- Justify my love handles: how the queer community trims the fat / Jay Blotcher -- Fatness and the feminized man / Ganapati S. Durgadas -- But to hear THEM tell it ... or: looksism, beauty's evil stepsister / Gene-Michael Higney -- Reps / Jim Provenzano -- Your dreamworld is just about to end / Frank Martinez Lester -- Learning the F words / John Stoltenberg -- Why I hate the Beatles and The Supremes / Ozzie Diaz-Duque -- If only I were cute: looksism and internalized homophobia in the gay male community / Andrew J. Feraios -- More than a sum of parts: rescuing the male body from fundamentalism / Darrell g.h. Schramm -- Skinny, "white" chicks and hung, buff boys: queer sex spaces and their discontents / Jill Nagle.
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| Abstract
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"Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities" contains research, first-hand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. "Looking Queer" will give members of these communities hope, insight, and information into body image issues, helping you to accept and to love your body. In addition, scholars, health care professionals, and body image activists will not only learn about queer experiences and identity and how they affect individuals, but will also understand how some of the issues involved affect society as a whole. Dismantling the myth that body image issues affect only heterosexual women, "Looking Queer" explores body issues based on gender, race, class, age, and disability.
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Furthermore, this groundbreaking book attests to the struggles, pain, and triumph of queer people in an open and comprehensive manner. More than 60 contributors provide their knowledge and personal experiences in dealing with body image issues exclusive to the gay and transgender communities, including: exploring and breaking down the categories of gender and sexuality that are found in many body image issues; finding ways to heal yourself and your community; discovering what it means to "look like a dyke" or to "look gay"; fearing fat as a sign of femininity; determining what race has to do with the gay ideal; discussing the stereotyped "double negative" - being a fat lesbian; learning strategies of resistance to societal ideals; critiquing "the culture of desire" within gay men's communities that emphasizes looks above everything else Revealing new and complex dimensions to body image issues, "Looking Queer" not only discusses the struggles and hardships of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons, but looks at the processes that can lead to acceptance of oneself. Written by both men and women, the topics and research in Looking Queer offer insight into the lives of people you can relate to, enabling you to learn from their experiences so you, too, can find joy and happiness in accepting your body.
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Body image in men-- United States.
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Body image in women-- United States.
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Gays-- United States-- Identity.
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Lesbians-- United States-- Identity.
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Self-esteem in men-- United States.
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Self-esteem in women-- United States.
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Body image in men.
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Body image in women.
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Gays-- Identity.
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Homosexueller
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Identität
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Lesbe
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Lesbians-- Identity.
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Self-esteem in men.
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Self-esteem in women.
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Homoseksualiteit.
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Lichamelijkheid.
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United States.
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USA
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.76/6
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| LC Classification
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HQ75.6.U5L66 1998
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71.25bcl
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MS 2850rvk
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MS 2870rvk
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MS 2900rvk
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| Added Entry
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Atkins, Dawn.
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