The Suit Suits Whom
Lesbian Gender, Female Masculinity, and Women-in-Suits
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12458802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lori Rifkin (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 157-174 |
| Publication date | 2002-10-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j155v06n02_20 |
| PMID | 24807671 |
| OpenAlex | W1498172961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper is an excerpt from a larger cultural study that reads the figure of a woman wearing a suit with pants as a "text" that functions discursively to reveal the production of our sex/gender/desire system. There I argue that the woman-in-a-suit isolates the power of the heterosystem and offers a subject position for making visible, contesting, and producing new meanings and relations of power. Here, I use the contemporary cultural figure of a woman-in-a-suit as a testing ground for asking questions about how current conceptualizations of lesbian gender and female masculinity affect and prescribe our reading of women ranging in genders and sexualities
Affect (linguistics · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Masculinity · Political science · Power (physics · Reading (process · Sociology · Subject (documents · Communication · Computer Science · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
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| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2024 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |