Performing Femininity

Humorous yet touching <I>Performing Femininity</I> challenges traditional and feminist perspectives on gender. As a woman whose brand of feminism is suspect Lesa Lockford places herself in the most shameful the most abject circumstances: an image obsessed weight-watcher an exotic dancer and a theatrical performer. By exposing herself to the abject she reclaims her body's symbolic value from society. This experimental autoethnography provides a provocative model to the ethnographer and rewards the student of gender studies with a rare perspective.