The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.
Tag: United States
Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s
Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage
Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.
Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.
The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men
Rethinking Rufus argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.
Esther Newton’s Butch Career
I love reading and writing stories but, until my memoir, most have been about other people.
The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture
Generational change in the imagination of sexuality caused an unprecedented shift in public opinion about same-sex marriage in the U.S.