Heteroqueer Ladies
Some Performative Transactions between Gay Men and Heterosexual Women
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3946898 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Roberta Mock (0000-0002-2897-2835, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2003 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 20-37 |
| Data de publicação | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400117 |
| OpenAlex | W2075739342 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 6 |
| Referências citadas | 13 |
As theories of performativity struggle to disentangle and reconfigure the relationships between act and identity, a heterowoman who relishes the performance of femininity is still aware that she can be read as reactionary. Her choice of sexual partners seems to undermine the efficacy of similar strategies constructed by femme lesbians. One queer option for a heterosexual woman is to 'act' like a gay man. As more than one cultural commentator has pointed out, it appears that only a male drag queen can be a 'lady' these days. This particular woman does not want to change her biological sex to 'be' a gay man. She has learned how to be a 'lady' from the 'feminized fags' who may have learned from her mother. Their ironic distancing, camp connoiseurship, and parodic appropriation of the notion of a stable gender identity came as part of the package. As a result of this transaction, she acts as if she has balls under her dress. Such mimetic masquerades can be most easily recognized as resistant when performativity is 'bound' into a formalized performance. It is implicit that this artifice is not sustainable, nor is this desirable. 'Doing' queer means possessing the agency to defy and destabilize gendered behaviours, sexes, and sexualities through continuing and conscious decisions. This article explores the efficacy of heterosexual femme performances that attempt to challenge and subvert ideological normativities through their transactions with gay men
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Appropriation · Art · Femininity · Human sexuality · Identity (music) · Lesbian · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Reactionary · Sociology · Subversion · Undoing · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Obras citantes distintas | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citações por ano | 0,33 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 6 |