Thanks for posting this and I don't remember who I got here, but it began on Making Light.
The thing that I'm most appreciative of in your paper is the inclusion of femmeslash and lesbians/bi writers and readers. I've noticed that in a lot of academic and non-academic writing on slash, there is a tendency to define it as m/m. In fact all discussion seems to center on m/m slash. I wonder if it has less to do with the smaller size of the femmeslash world and more to do with that (outdated as you've shown) portrait of slash writers as mousey heterosexual housewives. I'm sure it makes for more compelling and titillating thesis if you can out the kink of 'normal' American housewives and all the psychosexual/cultural implications of that transgression.
As a queer woman who writes and reads femmeslash, I must say it's nice to be included in the discussion. Although it does lead me to wonder if slash and femmeslash (the fact that femmeslash is a derivative term really says it all) aren't completely different spaces emotionally and culturally.
Anyway, I'm not an academic. Just a layperson who enjoys a good academic paper every once in a while. thanks again.
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Date: 2004-12-06 08:52 pm (UTC)From:The thing that I'm most appreciative of in your paper is the inclusion of femmeslash and lesbians/bi writers and readers. I've noticed that in a lot of academic and non-academic writing on slash, there is a tendency to define it as m/m. In fact all discussion seems to center on m/m slash. I wonder if it has less to do with the smaller size of the femmeslash world and more to do with that (outdated as you've shown) portrait of slash writers as mousey heterosexual housewives. I'm sure it makes for more compelling and titillating thesis if you can out the kink of 'normal' American housewives and all the psychosexual/cultural implications of that transgression.
As a queer woman who writes and reads femmeslash, I must say it's nice to be included in the discussion. Although it does lead me to wonder if slash and femmeslash (the fact that femmeslash is a derivative term really says it all) aren't completely different spaces emotionally and culturally.
Anyway, I'm not an academic. Just a layperson who enjoys a good academic paper every once in a while. thanks again.