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"'Magnificent and breathtaking. Del continues to define the avant-garde in sex and photography' Susie Bright 'Accessible, adroit and most certainly mischievous' New Internationalist"
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What is femme? French for woman? A feminine lesbian? A queer girl who loves to dress up? Think again! Going beyond identity politics and the pleasures of plumage, Femmes of Power captures a diverse range of queerly feminine subjects whose powerful and intentional redress explodes the meaning of femme for the 21st century. Femmes of Power features both every-day heroines and many queer feminist icons, including Michelle Tea, Virginie Despentes, Amber Hollibaugh, Itziar Ziga, Lydia Lunch, Kate Bornstein and Valerie Mason-John. Femmes of Power unsettles the objectifying 'male' gaze on femininity and presents femmes as speaking subjects and high-heeled theorists. Look closer - these powerful, sexy and sincerely ironic feminine figures are larger than life, bravely challenging femininity's negative connotations and replacing femme invisibility with a fresh new face for femme-inism.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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My first thought is what took you so long?After all the hype surrounding drag queens and kings a book of BIO queens has been a long time coming.I LOVE THIS BOOK.Not only are the images fantastic with lots of variety but unusually the subjects speak for themselves rather than being overanalysed by some dry academic.Femmes of Power is a pandoras box of images and interviews which will hopefully go a long way in getting femmes the recognition and respect they deserve.
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I'm not a gender studies student nor do I even consider myself queer but I found this book to be DELICIOUS! I devoured it--but not in one sitting--this is not fast food, it takes some time to digest. The images are amazing and powerful. It's rare to see women that are their own people and not just objects of beauty. Loved the writing too...made me realize how sexist this world really is. As an aging hetero femme I found Lois Weaver's STILL COUNTING essay especially relevant. Some of the essays and images were, shall we say, challenging? But that is exactly what I love about this book. It doesn't play safe. Thank you!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Gorgeous and much needed
9 Jan 2009
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This book is a phenomenal resource for anyone interested in queer femmes. The photographs are beautiful, the interviews are fascinating, and both play close attention to issues of race, class and sexuality as well as gender. *Femmes of Power* is a much needed addition to the world of queer theory and you won't be disappointed. It makes a great companion to photographer Del LaGrace Volcano's earlier work *The Drag King Book* but also stands alone. I have searched far and wide to try to build a library of books on femmes and this is the most visually beautiful one I have found.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
POWERFUL!
22 April 2009
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Femmes of Power is fabulous! An absolute first of a kind-- and no doubt the first of many more femme photo books to follow. As a big femme myself, I found the book super affirming, increasing my own femme pride. Del has a great eye. I love him and his work. Ulrika's text is incisive, and penetrates deeply into the delicious, flamboyant femme mystique. She's definitely a femme who knows her power. Del queers femme up for posterity. A must for femmes, butches all other permutations, and hermutations alike.
2 of 7 people found the following review helpful
"Femmes of Power": An Inactive Volcano
4 Nov 2009
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I was hoping for a book that I could identify with. When I was in college in the early '90s, I wrote a paper on one of then-Della Grace's images. I can't recall the exact one, but they appeared in a journal called Perversity and were in B&W. When I opened "Femmes of Power," which I bought for Volcano's photography, I thought, Nan Goldin, except everyone is smiling. Volcano, no doubt, would be loathe to admit any parallel to Golden, however. I must admit that I look at the book quite often, trying to figure out what it is that bothers me about the images, as a human being, as a person, as someone one would call "femme." I did read a bit of the text, which I was forced to put down almost immediately because I was afraid it would contaminate my pure, literary mind. Take that as you will. Did the author actually write "femme witticism"? Had I simply imagined this phrase and inserted it myself? Do we really need to have every aspect of our personalities subdivided, catalogued, and now according to "butch" or "femme"? What is the difference between a femme and butch witticism? I wish someone would have explained.
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