Female Masculinity

Informationen zum Autor Jack Halberstam Klappentext Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of several books, including The Queer Art of Failure and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung In this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinitywhich features a new preface by the authorJack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities, cataloging the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xi Preface xxiii 1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men 1 2. Perverse Presentation: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders 45 3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion 75 4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues 111 5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum 141 6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film 175 7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance 231 8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities 267 Notes 279 Bibliography 307 Filmography 319 Index 323

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Jack Halberstam

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Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of several books, including The Queer Art of Failure and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press.

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In this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinitywhich features a new preface by the authorJack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities, cataloging the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.

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Illustrations ix
Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xi
Preface xxiii

1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men 1
2. Perverse Presentation: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders 45
3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion 75
4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues 111
5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum 141
6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film 175
7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance 231
8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities 267
   Notes 279
   Bibliography 307
   Filmography 319
   Index 323