Female masculinity / Judith Halberstam.

  • Halberstam, Jack, 1961-
Date:
1998
  • Books

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Description

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. She 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 behaviours and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship.

Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.

Physical description

xiv, 329 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Filmography: pages 319-321.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and index.

Contents

1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men -- 2. Perverse Presentism: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders -- 3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion -- 4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues -- 5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum -- 6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film -- 7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance -- 8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities.

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    History of Medicine
    TPO /HAL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0822322439
  • 9780822322436
  • 0822322269
  • 9780822322269