An edition of Female Masculinity (1998)

Female Masculinity

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An edition of Female Masculinity (1998)

Female Masculinity

20th anniversary edition
  • 4.7 (3 ratings) ·
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  • 1 Currently reading
  • 5 Have read

Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.

Through detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. He rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. He considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. He also explores issues of transsexuality among "transgender dykes"---lesbians who pass as men---and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of "lesbian" a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators.

Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders.

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2019-01-09, Duke University Press
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2019-01-05, Duke University Press
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1998, Duke University Press
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Kindle Edition

Published in
Durham, NC, USA
Copyright Date
2019

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ75

Contributors

Foreword
Jack Halberstam

The Physical Object

Format
ebook
Number of pages
360

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29806182M
ISBN 10
1478002700
ISBN 13
9781478002703
LCCN
2018037288
OCLC/WorldCat
1220911873
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Amazon ID (ASIN)
B07M9ZBX3Z
Anna's Archive
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Goodreads
41160680
43411635

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