From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures

by Rusty Barrett

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195390180
• ISBN13: 9780195390186
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"