Language: EnglishPages: 344About The BookMasculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith 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. In this first full-length study on the subject, Halberstam catalogues the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-Iesbian 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. She rereads Anne Lister’s diaries and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme ro
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| Title: Female Masculinity |
| Author: Jack Halberstam |
| ISBN: 9789380000000 |
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| Genre: Lesbian Studies |
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| Publication Date: 2012 |
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| Publisher: Duke University Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 327 |
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| Book_ID: 106795 |