On the subject of masculinity, the English Wikipedia article on masculinity mentions absolutely nothing about female masculinity. There is no mention of butches, tomboys, drag kings, etc. This seems to be a pretty huge hole in the article and a good example of Wikipedia's systemic bias. There's an entire section on "Femininity in men" in the Femininity article, but no equivalent for women in the masculinity article. Jack Halberstam's book "Female Masculinity" would be a good source to use for such a section.

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Fæ <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:

I do not often listen to BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, but today's
edition had a nice exploration of gender in performance art, with
Grayson Perry being an inciteful participant.

The programme is 43 minutes long and you can download the mp3 and
listen offline. The BBC page below includes some of the works
mentioned.

It may spark some ideas for better Wikipedia articles around the
history of people performing as different genders without the focus
being on conventional drag or transvestites. There is also a
discussion of nude modelling for art, which could be interesting to
think about in the context of how fraught images of nudity hosted on
Wikimedia projects tends to be.

Links
* http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b078xf12

Fae
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