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100 _a Lockford, Lesa, 1958-
245 _a Performing femininity : rewriting gender identity
260 _a Walnut Creek, CA
_b AltaMira Press
_c2003
300 _a xi, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
520 _aPerforming 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
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