Looking Queer by Atkins, Dawn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Front Cover Half Title Title page Copyright Dedication Contents About the Editor Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Looking Queer SECTION A: WOMEN, WIMMIN, WOMYN

PART 1: CONSTRUCTING OURSELVES

Beauty Is a Beast Living into My Body Beauty Mandates and the Appearance Obsession: Are Lesbians Any Better Off? Resistance and Reinscription: Sexual Identity and Body Image Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women Contradictions of the Spirit: Theories and Realities of Lesbian Body Image Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body

PART 2: LOOKING DYKE

The Ugly Dyke Woman Eats Brownies, Gets Laid Professionally Q: A Day in the Life of a Career Counselor The Beauty Norm: A Femme Strikes Back It's Not What You Wear: Fashioning a Queer Identity Hair Piece Out-of-Body Experiences Movement

PART 3: SEARCHING A WAY OUT

Vanishing Point Autobiographical Slices: Life in the Queer Kitchen That Other Girl Who Is Not Me Moving Like a Dyke Tattoo Me

PART 4: A WOMAN'S LOVE HEALS

Mirror Big Grrl Ode to My Vibrator Dressing Room Blues My Ideal Becoming Real

PART 5: COMING OUT, LEAVING BEHIND

Coming Out Power, Beauty, and Dykes My Big Fat Body My Mother's Journals Be, Being, Becoming Boogeywoman

SECTION B: ONE, BOTH, NEITHER

PART 6: CROSSING THE DIVIDE

The Razor's Edge: Walking the Fine Line of the Self My Life As an Erroneous Sonogram Holding My Breath Underwater

PART 7: SQUARE PEGS

Affronting Reason In(to)Visibility: Intersexuality in the Field of Queer Agdistis’ Children: Living Bi-Gendered in a Single-Gendered World

PART 8: BOYZ, GRRLS, QUEERS

Flunking Basic Gender Training: Butches and Butch Style Today Frankly Feminine: Rejecting and Embracing Standards for Beauty Faggot Rant Beautiful Boy: A Girl's Own Story

SECTION C: BEYOND THE PALE

PART 9: COLOR VISION

“I” is for Intersection: At the Crux of Black and White and Gay and Straight Piece of Man: Redefining the Myths Around the Black Male Phallus Mapping My Desire: Hunting Down the Male Erotic in India and America “Undressing the Oriental Boy”: The Gay Asian in the Social Imaginary of the Gay White Male I Like My Chi-i-sa-i Body Now

PART 10: ACCESS TO THE LOOK

When Pigs Have Wings Inside/Outside Body Language The Imperfections of Beauty: On Being Gay and Disabled Love Poem

SECTION D: MEN, BOYS, AND TROLLS

PART 11: THE UNIFORM DOESN'T FIT

Queer Crash Test Dummies: Theory, Aging, and Embodied Problematics Laws of Desire: Has Our Imagery Become Overidealized? A Matter of Size Justify My Love Handles: How the Queer Community Trims the Fat Fatness and the Feminized Man

PART 12: FEELING THE BURN

But to Hear THEM Tell It... Or: Looksism, Beauty's Evil Stepsister Reps Your Dreamworld Is Just About to End Learning the F Words

PART 13: REENVISIONING MEN

Why I Hate The Beatles and The Supremes If Only I Were Cute: Looksism and Internalized Homophobia in the Gay Male Community More Than a Sum of Parts: Rescuing the Male Body from Fundamentalism Skinny, “White” Chicks and Hung, Buff Boys: Queer Sex Spaces and Their Discontents

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