‘Grisley “L” business’: Re-valuing female masculinity and butch subjectivity in Tipping the Velvet and The Night Watch

According to the lesbian cultural critic Emma Healey, the figure of the butch lesbian not only carries ‘the weight of nearly one hundred years of stereotyping on her shoulders’, but also suffers homophobic ‘scorn and ridicule’ from heterosexist culture as well as ‘internalised lesbophobia’ within le...

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Main Author:	Claire O'Callaghan
Format:	Default Book chapter
Published:	2016
Subjects:	Other creative arts and writing not elsewhere classified Female masculinity Queer theory Lesbian community Night Watch Masculine woman Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing not elsewhere classified
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/33469
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