title: Female Fem(me)ininities.
abstract: SUMMARY This article critiques the historical authentication and political legitimization of exclusively masculinized dyke identities within lesbian subcultures. Seeking to create a new analysis of performative femininity, it explores the specificity of historical and contemporary femme gender transgression and offers positionalities from which to perceive femme practices and identities as politically subversive.
authors.affiliation: a Ohio University , OH , USA.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maltry
authors.forename: Kristin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tucker
keywords: Gender identities; femme; queer