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Sissy Insurgencies - A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (Hardcover)
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Sissy Insurgencies - A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (Hardcover)
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In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the
sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated,
and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present.
Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how
sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender
practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation,
discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He
reconsiders several black leaders, intellectuals, musicians, and
athletes within the context of sissiness, from Booker T.
Washington, George Washington Carver, and James Baldwin to Little
Richard, Amiri Baraka, and Wilt Chamberlain. Whether examining
Washington's practice of cleaning as an iteration of sissiness,
Baldwin's self-fashioned sissy deportment, or sissiphobia in
professional sports and black nationalism, Ross demonstrates that
sissiness can be embraced and exploited to conform to American
gender norms or disrupt racialized patriarchy. In this way,
sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of
race and gender.
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