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Sissy insurgencies : a racial anatomy of unfit manliness
Title
Sissy insurgencies : a racial anatomy of unfit manliness / Marlon B. Ross.
ISBN
9781478022459
1478022450
9781478015215
9781478017837
1478015217
9781478015215
147801783X
9781478017837
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 440 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2022.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Marlon B. Ross explores the figure of the sissy as central to how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated black masculinity from the 1880s to the present."-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2022. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Ross, Marlon Bryan, 1956- Sissy insurgencies. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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?.
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