Citations:aggressive

English citations of aggressive

count noun: one who is aggressive

contrast nonaggressives

• 1972, John P. Murray, Eli Abraham Rubinstein, George A. Comstock, Television and Social Behavior: Reports and Papers, page 347:

  Among blacks, aggressives noted only three violent shows; less aggressives noted six.

count noun: (in Black lesbian communities) a butch

• 2008, Lisa M. Anderson, Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 105:

  The lives and experiences of the Aggressives offer us a contemporary example of black lesbian embodiment. They do identify as women, but as Aggressives they are frequently mistaken for men (not that it bothers them).

• 2010 February 26, Eileen M. Hayes, Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 171:

  […] the tall, thin young woman thwarts the representation of black, butch-identified lesbians as dark-skinned, […] Illustrating the confounding of identities associated with postmodern understandings of gender construction, Kisha describes herself as a “butch pretty boy” and as a “femme 'aggressive.” Drawing attention to the meta-frame of aggressive identity, Kisha offers that being aggressive includes "your strength, your courage, [and] your whole aura."

• 2012 February 1, Siobhan Brooks, Unequal Desires: Race and Erotic Capital in the Stripping Industry, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 110:

  [...]; usually the femme is the ho [at the the costume party], and the butch/aggressive is the pimp. [...] An aggressive is a masculine-identified woman like the category of butch; aggressive is the contemporary term among younger masculine-identified women.

• 2016 May 15, Shannon Dea, Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender, Broadview Press, →ISBN:

  Some of the aggressives sexually objectify women in various ways, while others elaborate on the masculine power they [...] The only difference between their performance of Black masculinity at the balls and their usual performance of […]

• 2018 April 19, Patrick R. Grzanka, Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, Routledge, →ISBN:

  Peddle's documentary follows several “aggressives,” who identify as female and/or as women and present themselves as masculine or male. […] the designation of oneself as “aggressive” or “AG” is part of a broader convergence of black popular culture with prison culture […]

adjective: (in Black lesbian communities) butch

• 2008, Jana Evans Braziel, Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 240:

  Shon rejects the label 'butch,' feeling that it doesn't describe her particular masculine blend (Female Masculinity, 263–64). Might “aggressive femme” signify something outside of “butch” or even “female masculinity”?

• 2010 February 26, Eileen M. Hayes, Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics, and Women's Music, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 171:

  […] the tall, thin young woman thwarts the representation of black, butch-identified lesbians as dark-skinned, […] Illustrating the confounding of identities associated with postmodern understandings of gender construction, Kisha describes herself as a “butch pretty boy” and as a “femme aggressive.” Drawing attention to the meta-frame of aggressive identity, Kisha offers that being aggressive includes "your strength, your courage, [and] your whole aura."

• 2011 October 17, Mignon Moore, Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships, and Motherhood among Black Women, Univ of California Press, →ISBN:

  [I label these women 'transgressive'] because many do not like or use the label “butch,” and because transgressive is linguistically similar to the term aggressive, which many Black lesbians in New York used to denote a woman with a masculine gender display. Transgressive women might have been called studs in a previous generation or butch in the predominantly White women's community, in that they use the female body as the site for signifying masculinity [...]. Most Black lesbians I spoke with were not comfortable calling themselves or the women they desired butch or stud, however. Some did not want to label them at all, while others (mostly working-class women) used "aggressive" to indicate a woman who does not look feminine. [...] Morgan Banner (born in 1962) [...w]hen I asked her how she would label herself if she had to choose a label, Morgan replied, "As being very aggressive. [...] I shop—I wear men's clothes." [...] The majority of respondents distinguished between having an aggressive style of dress and a dominant or forceful personality, saying the two are separate. [...]

• 2019 January 12, Mark A. Reid, African American Cinema through Black Lives Consciousness, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN:

  Her best friend, Laura (Pernell Walker), a confident black butch lesbian from a disadvantaged background, [...] She mentors Alike in the ways of the black aggressive woman, helping her to develop “the grand swagger” of hip-hop masculinity […]

• 2019 June 28, Jon Knowles, How Sex Got Screwed Up: The Ghosts that Haunt Our Sexual Pleasure - Book Two: From Victoria to Our Own Times, Vernon Press, →ISBN, page 624:

  They wore boots, jeans, men's shirts, and short hair and adopted aggressive behavior. They rejected the “butch” but adopted the look. Black lesbians and women in prison didn't value this new dogma. Only 17 out of 100 of them were […]

mentions which help establish meaning

• 2015 April 24, Peter Aggleton, Richard Parker, Felicity Thomas, Culture, Health and Sexuality: An Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:

  More recently, terms like 'aggressive' (Peddle 2005) and 'dominant' have also been used by Black same-gender loving women and [...] The few researchers who study lesbian gender have focused on varying topics, from butch and femme identity […]