“Just like a natural man”: The B.D. styles of Gertrude “Ma” Rainey and Bessie Smith
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DOI: 10.1080/10894160.2019.1562284
Abstract: Abstract This article pays homage to the antique term “B.D. (bulldyke) Woman” of the 1920s and 1930s, at a moment when the rise of a universal queer subject threatens to erase specific lesbian histories. Characterized… read more here.
Keywords: bessie smith; smith; rainey bessie; like natural ... See more keywords