title: The suit suits whom?
abstract: SUMMARY This paper is an excerpt from a larger cultural study that reads the figure of a woman wearing a suit with pants as a "text" that functions discursively to reveal the production of our sex/gender/desire system. There I argue that the woman-in-a-suit isolates the power of the heterosystem and offers a subject position for making visible, contesting, and producing new meanings and relations of power. Here, I use the contemporary cultural figure of a woman-in-a-suit as a testing ground for asking questions about how current conceptualizations of lesbian gender and female masculinity affect and prescribe our reading of women ranging in genders and sexualities.
authors.affiliation: a New York University , NY , USA.
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rifkin
keywords: Lesbian; butch-femme; clothing; cultural studies; female masculinity; gender; suit