Performing femininity : rewriting gender identity
- Walnut Creek, CA AltaMira Press 2003
- xi, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
Performing Femininity challenges both traditional and feminist perspectives on gender roles. Communications scholar Lesa Lockford transforms herself into an image-obsessed weight watcher, an exotic dancer, and a theatrical performer. In several narratives, Lockford uses these autoethno-graphic methods to rupture the conventional dichotomy of patriarchal versus feminist points of view, goading and challenging her