Robin Maltz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Maltz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Maltz |
| SIGNATURE | MALTZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Genesis of a Femme and Her Desire
This essay explores the erotically resignified roles of Mommy, Daddy, girl and boy in butch and femme. Using Freud's "Case of Homosexuality in a Woman" and personal narrative, the author focuses on the primal need for family and questions how, rather than why, butches and femmes inhabit these powerful, consensual roles in butch/femme relationships
Toward a Dyke Discourse
This essay argues the need for a dyke discourse that is a parallel project to queer theory but considers female subjectivity first and foremost and pays specific attention to desire and sexual practice as a mode of identity formation. The primary subject is the stonebutch -a queer masculine female, not a woman/not a man -and her partnered identity, the straight-appearing femme. Together, they fall out of the "woman-loving-woman" definition of les…
Real butch
In this essay, I locate the performativity of queer female masculinity in four sites—the theatrical performances of male impersonators in the United States from the 1940s to the 1960s and contemporary US drag kings, the act of passing as male, and stone butch subjectivity. These sites of performativity work on and against what I call ‘stone butch realness'—meaning butch subjectivity that is at once essential and socially constructed. I explore th…
Real butch
In this essay, I locate the performativity of queer female masculinity in four sites—the theatrical performances of male impersonators in the United States from the 1940s to the 1960s and contemporary US drag kings, the act of passing as male, and stone butch subjectivity. These sites of performativity work on and against what I call ‘stone butch realness'—meaning butch subjectivity that is at once essential and socially constructed. I explore th…
Genesis of a Femme and Her Desire
This essay explores the erotically resignified roles of Mommy, Daddy, girl and boy in butch and femme. Using Freud's "Case of Homosexuality in a Woman" and personal narrative, the author focuses on the primal need for family and questions how, rather than why, butches and femmes inhabit these powerful, consensual roles in butch/femme relationships
Toward a Dyke Discourse
This essay argues the need for a dyke discourse that is a parallel project to queer theory but considers female subjectivity first and foremost and pays specific attention to desire and sexual practice as a mode of identity formation. The primary subject is the stonebutch -a queer masculine female, not a woman/not a man -and her partnered identity, the straight-appearing femme. Together, they fall out of the "woman-loving-woman" definition of les…
Real butch
In this essay, I locate the performativity of queer female masculinity in four sites—the theatrical performances of male impersonators in the United States from the 1940s to the 1960s and contemporary US drag kings, the act of passing as male, and stone butch subjectivity. These sites of performativity work on and against what I call ‘stone butch realness'—meaning butch subjectivity that is at once essential and socially constructed. I explore th…
Toward a Dyke Discourse
This essay argues the need for a dyke discourse that is a parallel project to queer theory but considers female subjectivity first and foremost and pays specific attention to desire and sexual practice as a mode of identity formation. The primary subject is the stonebutch -a queer masculine female, not a woman/not a man -and her partnered identity, the straight-appearing femme. Together, they fall out of the "woman-loving-woman" definition of les…
Genesis of a Femme and Her Desire
This essay explores the erotically resignified roles of Mommy, Daddy, girl and boy in butch and femme. Using Freud's "Case of Homosexuality in a Woman" and personal narrative, the author focuses on the primal need for family and questions how, rather than why, butches and femmes inhabit these powerful, consensual roles in butch/femme relationships
Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)