28.2703, Books: From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Barrett

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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:12:57
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Barrett

 


Title: From Drag Queens to Leathermen 
Subtitle: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/from-drag-queens-to-leathermen-9780195390186 


Author: Rusty Barrett

Hardback: ISBN:  9780195390179 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780195390186 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 24.95


Abstract:

This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag
queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen.
Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative
assumptions about gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of
these subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of gender
are intimately linked to other forms of social difference. 

In From Drag Queens to Leathermen, Barrett presents an extension of his
earlier work among African American drag queens in the 1990s, emphasizing the
intersections of race and class in the construction of gender. An analysis of
sacred music among radical faeries considers the ways in which expressions of
gender are embedded in a broader neo-pagan religious identity. The formation
of bear as an identity category (for heavyset and hairy men) in the late 1980s
involves the appropriation of linguistic stereotypes of rural Southern
masculinity. Among regular attendees of circuit parties, language serves to
differentiate gay and straight forms of masculinity. In the early 2000s,
barebackers (gay men who eschew condoms) used language to position themselves
as rational risk takers with an innate desire for semen. For participants in
the International Mr. Leather contest, a disciplined, militaristic masculinity
links expressions of patriotism with BDSM sexual practice.

In all of these groups, the construction of gendered identity involves
combining linguistic forms that would usually not co-occur. These unexpected
combinations serve as the foundation for the emergence of unique subcultural
expressions of gay male identity, explicated at length in this book.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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