Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness - Softcover

Ross, Marlon B.

 
9781478017837: Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 147801783X ISBN 13: 9781478017837
Verlag: Duke University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

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 are 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, 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marlon B. Ross is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era and The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry.

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Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
147801783X
ISBN 13 
9781478017837
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Anzahl der Seiten
456
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