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About the Editor | |
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Contributors | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Looking Queer | |
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Women, Wimmin, Womyn | |
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Constructing Ourselves | |
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Beauty Is a Beast | |
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Living into My Body | |
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Beauty Mandates and the Appearance Obsession: Are Lesbians Any Better Off? | |
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Resistance and Reinscription: Sexual Identity and Body Image Among Lesbian and Bisexual Women | |
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Contradictions of the Spirit: Theories and Realities of Lesbian Body Image | |
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Lesbians and the (Re/De)Construction of the Female Body | |
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Looking Dyke | |
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The Ugly Dyke | |
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Woman Eats Brownies, Gets Laid | |
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Professionally Q: A Day in the Life of a Career Counselor | |
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The Beauty Norm: A Femme Strikes Back | |
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It's Not What You Wear: Fashioning a Queer Identity | |
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Hair Piece | |
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Out-of-Body Experiences | |
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Movement | |
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Searching a Way Out | |
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Vanishing Point | |
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Autobiographical Slices: Life in the Queer Kitchen | |
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That Other Girl Who Is Not Me | |
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Moving Like a Dyke | |
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Tattoo Me | |
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A Woman's Love Heals | |
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Mirror | |
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Big Grrl | |
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Ode to My Vibrator | |
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Dressing Room Blues | |
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My Ideal Becoming Real | |
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Coming Out, Leaving Behind | |
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Coming Out | |
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Power, Beauty, and Dykes | |
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My Big Fat Body | |
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My Mother's Journals | |
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Be, Being, Becoming | |
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Boogeywoman | |
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One, Both, Neither | |
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Crossing the Divide | |
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The Razor's Edge: Walking the Fine Line of the Self | |
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My Life As an Erroneous Sonogram | |
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Holding My Breath Underwater | |
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Square Pegs | |
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Affronting Reason | |
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In(to) Visibility: Intersexuality in the Field of Queer | |
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Agdistis' Children: Living Bi-Gendered in a Single-Gendered World | |
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Boyz, Grrls, Queers | |
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Flunking Basic Gender Training: Butches and Butch Style Today | |
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Frankly Feminine: Rejecting and Embracing Standards for Beauty | |
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Faggot Rant | |
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Beautiful Boy: A Girl's Own Story | |
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Beyond the Pale | |
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Color Vision | |
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"I" is for Intersection: At the Crux of Black and White and Gay and Straight | |
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Piece of Man: Redefining the Myths Around the Black Male Phallus | |
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Mapping My Desire: Hunting Down the Male Erotic in India and America | |
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"Undressing the Oriental Boy": The Gay Asian in the Social Imaginary of the Gay White Male | |
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I Like My Chi-i-sa-i Body Now | |
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Access to the Look | |
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When Pigs Have Wings | |
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Inside/Outside | |
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Body Language | |
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The Imperfections of Beauty: On Being Gay and Disabled | |
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Love Poem | |
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Men, Boys, and Trolls | |
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The Uniform Doesn't Fit | |
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Queer Crash Test Dummies: Theory, Aging, and Embodied Problematics | |
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Laws of Desire: Has Our Imagery Become Overidealized? | |
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A Matter of Size | |
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Justify My Love Handles: How the Queer Community Trims the Fat | |
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Fatness and the Feminized Man | |
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Feeling the Burn | |
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But to Hear THEM Tell It ... Or: Looksism, Beauty's Evil Stepsister | |
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Reps | |
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Your Dreamworld Is Just About to End | |
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Learning the F Words | |
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Reenvisioning MEN | |
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Why I Hate The Beatles and The Supremes | |
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If Only I Were Cute: Looksism and Internalized Homophobia in the Gay Male Community | |
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More Than a Sum of Parts: Rescuing the Male Body from Fundamentalism | |
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Skinny, "White" Chicks and Hung, Buff Boys: Queer Sex Spaces and Their Discontents | |
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Index | |