Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness

In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink...
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Author: Marlon B. Ross
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Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Ross, Marlon B.

Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness

$2,203.49

Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness

$2,203.49
Author: Marlon B. Ross
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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.

Author: Marlon B. Ross
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/28/2022
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781478015215

About the Author
Marlon B. Ross is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and author of Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era and The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry.

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