Butch and femme (Lesbian culture)
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Butch-fem (Lesbian culture)
Butch-femme (Lesbian culture)
Femme-butch (Lesbian culture)
Femme and butch (Lesbian culture)
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found: Work cat: Loulan, JoAnn. The lesbian erotic dance: butch, femme, androgyny, and other rhythms, c1990.
found: The persistent desire: a femme-butch reader, 1992.
found: Butch/femme: inside lesbian gender, 1998.
found: Encyclopedia of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history in America, c2004(femmes and butches; the origin of the terms femme and butch has been traced to working-class lesbian subcultures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s)
found: Lesbian histories and cultures: an encyclopedia, 2000(butch-femme, also spelled butch-fem; the butch-femme couple was particularly dominant in the U.S. lesbian community from the 1920s to early 1960s. The butch appears masculine, the femme feminine, paralleling heterosexual categories; but butches and femmes transformed heterosexual elements into a unique lesbian language of sexuality and emotional bonding)
found: Merriam-Webster dictionary (online), viewed July 13, 2012(butch: notably or deliberately masculine in appearance or manner; also used as a noun; femme (definition 2): a lesbian who is notably or stereotypically feminine in appearance and manner)
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- Here are entered works on lesbians who assume a masculine or feminine identity or role, which may be manifested in manner or appearance.
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2012-09-29: new
2013-01-24: revised
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