@article{ref1,
title="Gender please, without the gender police: rethinking pain in archetypal narratives of butch, transgender, and FTM masculinity",
journal="Journal of lesbian studies",
year="2006",
author="Detloff, Madelyn",
volume="10",
number="1-2",
pages="87-105",
abstract="Why is it that many of the often-cited narratives about butch, FTM, and/or transgender masculinity happen to be fictions that highlight suffering as a de facto rite of passage for the butch, FTM, or transgendered protagonist? This essay attempts to answer that question, first by outlining the &quot;coherentist assumptions&quot; of lesbian feminism and the forms of gender-policing that cast butch, FTM, and transgendered subjectivities as &quot;false consciousness.&quot; It then analyzes the practice of anchoring butch, FTM, and/or transgender identity claims in pain-filled narratives such as &quot;The Well of Loneliness,&quot; &quot;Stone Butch Blues,&quot; and &quot;Boys Don't Cry.&quot; While these narratives do important cultural work-exposing the violence heaped upon butches, FTMs, and transgendered guys-it may be time to imagine alternative narratives that are less invested in suffering as a barometer of masculine authenticity.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1089-4160",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}