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Summary:

Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for queer history in Butch Heroes. Brodell offers a series of twenty-eight portraits of forgotten but heroic figures, each accompanied by a brief biographical note. They are individuals who were assigned female at birth but whose gender presentation was more masculine than feminine, who did not want to enter into heterosexual marriage, and who often faced dire punishment for being themselves. Brodell's detailed and witty paintings are modeled on Catholic holy cards, slyly subverting a religious template. The portraits and the texts offer intriguing hints of lost lives: cats lounge in the background of domestic settings; one of the figures is said to have been employed variously as "a prophet, a soldier, or a textile worker"; another casually holds a lit cigarette. Brodell did extensive research for each portrait, piecing together a life from historical accounts, maps, journals, paintings, drawings, and photographs, finding the heroic in the forgotten.

Table of Contents:

• Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; List of Portraits; The Paintings; Notes; Bibliography

Author/Creator:

Brodell, Ria , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Butch heroes [by Brodell, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Butch heroes [by Brodell, R.] (Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018] — ISBN 9780262038973; LCCN 2018008759; OCLC Number 1029069671)

Subjects:

Brodell, Ria — Butch heroes

Gender-nonconforming people — Portraits

Gender-nonconforming people — Biography

ARTS/General

SOCIAL SCIENCES/Gender Studies

HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography

Gender-nonconforming people

Genres:

Biographies

Portraits

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 79 pages) : color illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

ND1329.B756 A62 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780262349956 (electronic bk.)
0262349957 (electronic bk.)
9780262038973 (hardcover) [Invalid]
0262038978 (hardcover) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1076543535