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The Complex Performances of Male Femininities The Complex Performances of Male Femininities
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14 “In My Dad’s Gun Room, There’s an 8×10 Picture of Me in Drag”: Drag and Respect in the Deep South
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Part front matter for Part 4 Performing Male Femininities
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Published:February 2023
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The authors in this section explore the ways that male femininities are performed on varying stages, both metaphorical and literal. These readings each highlight the ways that men manage their feminine performances as a means of navigating their personal relationships, challenging structural inequalities, and upending their own assumptions about their gender identities. Each author shows us how men can enact male femininities to meet different social and interpersonal needs and expose how feminine performances for men can be colored by, one the one hand, risk and surveillance, and by pride, gratification, and pleasure, on the other.
Gender performativity—the idea that gender is something that we “do,” rather than something that we “are”—is one of the most enduring concepts in contemporary gender studies. As Candice West and Don H. Zimmerman observed more than thirty years ago, gender is “the activity of managing situated conduct in light of normative conceptions of attitudes and activities appropriate for one’s sex category … [and] … not simply an aspect of what one is, but, more fundamentally, it is something that one does, and does recurrently, in interaction with others.”1 By performing gender, we give meaning to gender and gender identities.2 In other words, we are not “born” with gender; through the act of “doing” gender, we achieve gender.
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