Mar 13, 2015
There is evidence that some butches in the 1950s, marginalized from more mainstream work because of their masculinity, engaged in sex work and sometimes became pregnant; they would leave their cities and return chidless after the birth (Kennedy & Davis, 1993). More than this context-specific moment of butch pregnancy, what Epstein means when she says that butch motherhood is "a possibility that already exists" (2002: 43) is that the incongruence of a masculine pregnant body is more true in mainstream notions of gender than in lesbian subcultural practices.
Maura Ryan, "The Gender of Pregnancy: Masculine Lesbians Talk about Reproduction." Journal of Lesbian Studies. 2013.