How does one decide what counts as writing on femme?
Well, to begin, the piece must have something to do with femme/queer femininity. That's easy enough. But, being the independent femme that I am, the first stumbling block I run into is this: Do I detach femme writing from the writing on femme-butch, make this bibliography a political statement that, as Chloe Brushwood Rose and Anna Camilleri put it in their intro to Brazen Femme, "liberates femme from its binary relation with butch...celebrat[ing] and complicat[ing] femme as a gender experience on its own terms" (13)? That is, do I make this a bibliography of writing that is only on femme?
No? I say no because, well, for one, historically, femme is very much tied to butch, and as such, a lot of writing on femme is in the context of femme-butch (indeed, a lot of the first pieces on queer femininity that I read were about butch-femme, or pieces on femme in larger anthologies of butch-femme writing). So, for those eager to get their hands on all things femme, work on femme-butch is fairly important. Even for what it doesn't say--I wouldn't want to exclude something like Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold, which, in its very limited discussion of femme, tells us something about the way in which femme is/has been perceived and conceptualized.
But with all that being said, I'm not so sure. For now, I've included anthologies like The Persistent Desire because there are pieces in those anthologies that do tackle femme "as a gender experience on its own terms," but I haven't included specific pieces on the butch-femme dyad.
What are your thoughts?
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