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Sissy insurgencies : a racial anatomy of unfit manliness
- Title
- Sissy insurgencies : a racial anatomy of unfit manliness / Marlon B. Ross.
- Author
- Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- x, 440 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that is expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He reconsiders several black leaders, intellectuals, musicians, and athletes within the context of sissiness, from Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and James Baldwin to Little Richard, Amiri Baraka, and Wilt Chamberlain. Whether examining Washington's practice of cleaning as an iteration of sissiness, James Baldwin's self-fashioned sissy deportment, or sissiphobia in professional sports and black nationalism, Ross demonstrates that sissiness can be embraced and exploited to conform to American gender norms or disrupt racialized patriarchy. In this way, sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of race and gender"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Gender identity
- Sex (Psychology)
- Effeminacy > United States > History > 20th century
- Sex role > United States > History > 20th century
- Masculinity > United States > History > 20th century
- Gender nonconformity > United States > History > 20th century
- Male homosexuality > United States > History > 20th century
- Effeminacy
- Gender nonconformity
- Male homosexuality
- Masculinity
- Sex role
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and index.
- Contents
- Sissies Everywhere -- Can the Sissy Be Insurgent? -- Sissy Housekeeping: Cleanliness, Gender Dissonance, and the Spoils of Political Patronage at Washington's Tuskegee -- Un/fit Manliness: Evading Masculine Brutality in James Weldon Johnson's Sissy Narratives -- Baldwin's Sissy Heroics -- Sissy but Not Gay: Anatomy of the Post-Civil Rights Straight Black Sissy -- Gay but Not Sissy: Race and the Queering of the Professional Athlete -- Whatever Happened or Will Happen to the Sissy-Boy?.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-878
- ISBN
- 9781478015215
- 1478015217
- 9781478017837
- 147801783X
- LCCN
- 2021018499
- OCLC
- 1245343806
- Author
- Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956- author.
- Title
- Sissy insurgencies : a racial anatomy of unfit manliness / Marlon B. Ross.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-431) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956- Sissy insurgencies Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478022459 (DLC) 2021018500
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-878