User:Rowank2

Project Ideas

Editing the Butch and Femme so the definition of Femme is expanded outside of its relationship to the Butch identity, which would include establishing Femme's own wiki page.

Rowank2 (talk) 19:55, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

Femme Wikipedia Project for Queer Identities at Montclair State University
I am a part of a group of three from the Queer Identities class at Montclair State University. We were assigned to choose an article on Wikipedia to edit and develop and this is our plan for the Butch/Femme article so far, along with a beginning bibliography which we hope to add 2 to 3 more articles to. We hope you approve of and support our plan!

Proposal: To expand the definition of femme in order to highlight the sexism within the queer community by further discussing the femmephobia / femme invisibility / femme erasure that occurs as a result of sexism within the community. The femme erasure is largely due to the rejection of heteronormative roles, the view of feminine as inferior, and the popular emphasis on female masculinities. Also, we plan on separating femme from butch, as the butch-femme association promotes the idea that femme is only an identity when there is a butch counterpart.

Bibliography

Crowley, Vicki. (2004). Within the New Moment--An Interview with Judith Halberstam. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, vol. 25, 459 - 465. doi:10.1080/0159630042000290955

Dahl, U. (2015). SEXISM: A FEMME-INIST PERSPECTIVE. New Formations, (86), 54-73. doi:10.3898/NEWF.86.03.2015

Musser, A. J. (2016). Queering the Pinup: History, Femmes, and Brooklyn. GLQ: A Journal Of Lesbian And Gay Studies, (1), 55.

Walker, J. J., Golub, S. A., Bimbi, D. S., & Parsons, J. T. (2012). Butch Bottom–Femme Top? An Exploration of Lesbian Stereotypes. Journal Of Lesbian Studies, 16(1), 90. doi:10.1080/10894160.2011.557646

Rowank2 (talk) 20:28, 23 March 2016 (UTC)