3. Three Contemplations on “The Effeminist Manifesto”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Defining and Deconstructing Male Femininities 1
4. Part 1. Historicizing Male Femininities
5. 1. Toward a Typology and Genealogy of Effeminacies 17
6. 2. The Effeminist Manifesto 35
7. 3. Three Contemplations on “The Effeminist Manifesto” 40
8. Part 2. Configuring Male Femininities
9. 4. Pushing (Gender) Hard on the Bike: Navigating Normativities as a Queer Spin Instructor 47
10. 5. The Small ts and the Gender Binary Shake-up: The Girl in the Boy and the Boy in the Girl 55
11. 6. Trapped in the Glass Closet: Feminine Straight Men and the Politics of Coming Out 71
12. 7. Two-Spirit, Not Trans: Joshua Whitehead’s Erotic Sovereignty 90
13. Part 3. Embodying Male Femininities
14. 8. Dear Masculinity 107
15. 9. An Interview with Julia Serano 115
16. 10. Unexpected Breasts, Unexpected Pleasures: Exploring Cisgender Men’s Breast Development and Bra Wearing 125
17. 11. Brotox and the Retreat from Male Femininity 143
18. 12. Pregnant Men and Their Reconfigurations of Pregnancy 165
19. Part 4. Performing Male Femininities
20. 13. Welcome to the Stage: Power, Practice, and the Performance of Drag Queening 185
21. 14. “In My Dad’s Gun Room, There’s an 8×10 Picture of Me in Drag”: Drag and Respect in the Deep South 193
22. 15. The Fierce World of Gay Asian Drag 210
23. 16. “The Reason You Can Suck a Dick Is Because Some Fem Once Got Beaten Up, Right?” A Case Study of Gender, Race, and Sexuality for Latinx Queer Men 226
24. 17. Radical Cheerbois: Genderqueer Bodies Performing Queer Femininity 249
25. Part 5. Male Femininities and Intimacies
26. 18. Unloved 255
27. 19. Assume the Position: Bottom-Shaming among Black Gay Men 262
28. 20. Are Polyamorous Men Embodying Male Femininity? 279
29. 21. Male Femininity as Spirituality among Radical Faeries 290
30. Part 6. Male Femininities and Institutions
31. 22. Funeral Rights 307
32. 23. When Our Boys Wished to Be Girls: A Retrospective Look at Parenting Gender-Nonconforming Young Boys 314
33. 24. Negotiating Masculinity in the Fire Service: Accessing Brotherhood or Subverting Gender Norms 330
34. 25. Resisting Femininity in Responsible Fathering: Men and the Gendering of Care in US Fatherhood Policy 346
35. Conclusion: Male Femininities and Dismantling the Binaries and Boundaries of Gender 365
36. Acknowledgments 369
37. About the Contributors 371
38. About the Editors 381
39. Index 383