Rescuing lesbian camp.
This paper explores the limits of lesbian camp as it is currently conceived within Lesbian Studies. I argue, in what I hope is a rather circuitous way, that a reliance on repudiative models of identity formation fixes gender as complementary and sexuality as oppositional, irrespective of intention. In this context, I imagine instead what it would take to theorize femininity itself as camp, and femme subjects as ideal for working this through at the level of praxis.
Hemmings
Clare
C
Gender Institute, London School of Economics, Houghton St, London, WC2A 2AE, UK. c.hemmings@lse.ac.uk
D001727:Bisexuality; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D014481:United States; D014495:Universities