Soft butch
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A soft butch, or stem (stud-fem), is a lesbian who exhibits some stereotypical butch traits without fitting the masculine stereotype associated with butch lesbians. Soft butch is on the spectrum of butch, as are stone butch and masculine, whereas on the contrary, ultra fem, high femme, and lipstick lesbian are some labels on the spectrum of lesbians with a more prominent expression of femininity, also known as femmes.[1] Soft butches have gender expressions of women, but primarily display masculine characteristics; soft butches predominantly express masculinity with a touch of femininity.[2]
The "hardness", or label depicting one's level of masculine expression as a butch is dependent upon the fluidity of her
In addition to a soft butch's gender expression through her outward appearance, she also has a distinctive way of sexually expressing herself. Soft butch women might want to have a more passive role
See also
- Drag king
- Stone butch
- Stone femme
- Tomboy
References
- ^ Smith, Christine A.; Stillman, Shannon (2003). "Do Butch and Femme Still Attract?". The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide. X (4).
- ^ a b c d Rose, Dawn; Plaskow, Judith (2009). "Yusuf Come Home: Parashat Miketz (genesis 41:1-44:17)". Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible: 62.
- ISBN 978-0-8223-2243-6.
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- PMID 17896173.
- ^ Carpenter, Karen; McKenzie, Matthew (2011). "Love on a Continuum". Social and Economic Studies. 60 (1): 118.
Further reading
- Robertson, Julia Diana (July 25, 2017). "Annemarie Schwarzenbach—The Forgotten Woman—Activist, Writer & Style Icon". HuffPost.
- Webster, Madeline (June 27, 2019). "Butch/Femme Relationships: A Lesbian Way of Loving". AfterEllen.
- Books and journals
- Allen, Meg (2017). Butch. Berkeley, California: Edition One. ISBN 978-0692904206.
- Atkins, Dawn, ed. (1998). Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities. ISBN 978-0789004635.
- Beemyn, Brett; Eliason, Mickey, eds. (1996). Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Anthology. ISBN 978-0814712573.
- Cassell, Avery; Macy, Jon, eds. (2017). Butch Lesbians of the '20s, '30s, and '40s Coloring Book. Walnut, California: Stacked Deck Press. ISBN 978-0997048766.
- Cassell, Avery; Macy, Jon, eds. (2018). Butch Lesbians of the '50s, '60s, and '70s Coloring Book. Walnut, California: Stacked Deck Press. ISBN 978-0997048797.
- O'Sullivan, Sue (1999). "I Don't Want You Anymore: Butch/Femme Disappointments" (PDF). S2CID 145243345. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-09-06.
- Collections
- Vintage Photographs, Isle of Lesbos, Sappho.com. (Archive)
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