Date of Award
Spring 5-4-2022
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Joseph Cermatori
Abstract
This thesis uses literature and photography by butch lesbian artists and writers to argue that there is a particular mode of being as well as gazing for butches. It explores female masculinity in various contexts, with one chapter dedicated to Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928) and Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues (1993) and the second chapter studying Alison Bechdel's Fun Home (2005). Making a nuanced argument about the relationship between image and text, this thesis brings the politics of gazing into a queer context following theorists like Paul Preciado and Jack Halberstam.
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Recommended Citation
Harrow, Miriam, "Looking Butch Through the Years: Intergenerationality and Gazing in Lesbian Literature and Photography" (2022). English Honors Theses. 59.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/eng_stu_schol/59
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