Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging: Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, Can butches even...
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First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging: Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, Can butches even get pregnant?”Of course, as she and her pragmatic femme girlfriend Vee discover, they can. But what happens when they do? Written and illustrated by A.K. Summers, and based on her own pregnancy, Pregnant Butch strives to depict this increasingly common, but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexityfrom the question of whether suspenders count as legitimate maternity wear to the strains created by different views of pregnancy within a couple and finally to a culturally critical and compassionate interrogation of gender in pregnancy. Offering smart, ambitious art, this graphic memoir is a must-read for would-be pregnant butches and anyone interested in the intersection of birth and gender, as well as a perfect queer baby shower gift and conversation starter for those who always assumed they got” being pregnant.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781593765408 (1593765401)
ASIN: 1593765401
Publish date: 2014-03-18
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Pages no: 126
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Parenting,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay,
Gender
Found some preview pages here.Rather intriguing right? Too bad it was quite expensive - Listed at Kobobooks.com @ USD10.99. Shall be waiting for promo/discount before I grab this.