Jack Halberstam
- Author(s)
- Jack Halberstam
- Publication
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2018
- Scope
- 329 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781478001621
In this quintessential work of queer theory, 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 centuries. Demonstrating how female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders, 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.
- Keywords
- queerness , gender dysphoria , queerness
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 5: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and index. ; First published in 1998 - 20th Anniversary Edition with a new preface
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