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spir-8630	White, Michele	GUT AND BUTT DESIRES AND THE HETEROSEXUAL IMAGINARY: THE PIONEER WOMAN BLOGS ABOUT FOOD, FAT, AND COWBOYS IN CHAPS	2015.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1236	47	40	Hello,  lover”  and  highlights  varied  sorts  of  gut  feelings.8  Pie  Near   Woman  stresses  the  queer  eroticism  of  these  addresses  by  depicting  Drummond   rubbing  against,  penetrating  herself  with,  and  dousing  herself  in  food.   She  dreams  of  a  feminine  world  where  the   combination  of  physically  touching  and  emotionally  feeling  produces  clean  whiteness.2   Through  such  images  and  accounts,  Drummond  and  many  of  her  readers  articulate  a   culture  of  shared  tastes,  histories,  and  identities  and  begin  to  trouble  these  positions  by   offering  visions  of  the  queer  relationship  and  child—the  daughter  as  dirty,  “man,”  and   husband.3  Drummond  thus  performs  a  version  of  the  “heterosexual  imaginary”  that,  as   Chrys  Ingraham  argues,  is  a  “way  of  thinking  which  conceals  the  operation  of   heterosexuality  in  structuring  gender”  while  constantly  hinting  at  the  queer.4       Drummond’s  articulation  of  norms  should  be  cause  for  concern  because  her  The   Pioneer  Woman  blog  has  millions  of  readers  every  month.5  In  the  blog,  Drummond   promises  that  she  is  “Keepin’  it  Real”;;  indicates  her  “love”  for  readers;;  and  chronicles   her  life  as  a  rancher,  wife,  mother,  homeschooler,  author,  and  television  personality.6   Drummond’s  self-­identification  as  an  ordinary  white  heteronormative  woman,  without  of   course  ever  using  these  terms,  is  undermined  by  her  own  corporeal  expressions  and  a   group  of  blogging  critics,  including  the  Pie  Near  Woman  blogger  who  deploys   photographs  of  doll  tableaus  as  a  means  of  parodying  Drummond. 	cache/spir-8630.pdf	txt/spir-8630.txt