Butch queens up in pumps : gender, performance, and ballroom culture in Detroit
Marlon M. Bailey (Author)
"Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this diverse community. Marlon M. Bailey's rich first-person performance ethnography of the Ballroom scene in Detroit examines Ballroom as a queer cultural formation that upsets dominant notions of gender, sexuality, kinship, and community." --Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2013
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2013