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3.0 out of 5 stars A wee bit repetitive, April 9 2002

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"twilighttrauma" (Cotati, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Femme Mystique (Paperback)

The book was good and I don't regret buying it but I tried to sit down and read it all the way through and soon was bored and frustrated. There are some great essays in there about the butch/femme dynamic and what it means to be a femme in the lesbian community but theres a great deal of repetition and I started feeling like I was reading the same essay over and over.. and over again. It's a nice book, but I won't be re-reading it anytime soon. If I could recommend a book it would be 'Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear' instead.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A feminsist/womanist critique of The Femme Mystique, April 11 2000

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Nicole T Buchanan - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Femme Mystique (Paperback)

This book is a poignant analysis of the often dichotomized butch-femme roles within the lesbian community. Via a collection of independent writings, the work highlights an often stigmatized and misunderstood group--the femme lesbian. Through touching, and often sensual stories of love and the search for an identity as "a femme," this book allows a rarely viewed glimpse into the hearts, minds, and bodies of these women. Despite the quality of this book, I would have liked to see more explicit discussion of the lives of femme women of color. Sadly, their absence risks recapitulating the same "othering" that many women in this book discuss. The familiar arguments of feminist/womanist women of color--that we are largely absent from important discourse on women-- can be asserted with this text as well. Nevertheless, it is a powerful book and hopefully future editions will more directly address such issues.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Worth Reading, But Don't Blow Your Rent Money On It, Mar 21 2000

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I liked this book. OTOH, I've *loved* all the Leslea Newman books I've read. This work was not written by LN, but edited by her. It has some excellent moments, but if you want a great treatise about what it means to be femme, choose 'Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars at last. . . respect and honor shown to femmes!
i resisted my femme identity for a few years- then, i read this book. too often, in the lesbian community, femme women are dismissed as 'lesbians until graduation', 'six-pack... Read more

Published on Feb 20 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Got Me In Touch With My Femme Self!
As a young woman struggling with my identity, I got the book "The Femme Mystique" in hopes that it would provide some insights. Read more

Published on Jan 23 2000