Butches with Babies

SUMMARY

This article is about butches who get pregnant and become mothers. It suggests that butch motherhood might widen the range of both maternal and butch subjectivities by linking a queer masculinity and sexuality to the attachments of the female body. A butch confrontation with the stigma that comes with the territory of femininity may also draw her in new ways to feminist struggles to provide social supports to those who mother.

Key Words:

• Butch
• motherhood
• maternal
• pregnancy
• parenting
• gender
• sexuality
• masculinity/femininity
• femininism