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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 | |