Female Masculinity
Female Masculinity

Jack Halberstam

Auteur(s)
Jack Halberstam
Uitgever
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2018
Omvang
329 p., geïllustreerd, 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.


Trefwoorden
queerness , gender dysphoria , queerness
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 30 - 5: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte
Opmerkingen
Incl. bibliographical references and index. ; First published in 1998 - 20th Anniversary Edition with a new preface