{"product_id":"female-masculinity-anniversary","title":"Female Masculinity (Anniversary)","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFemale Masculinity (Anniversary)\u003c\/h1\u003eJack Halberstam\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 09 2019\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781478001621\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1478001623\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough 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. He rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's \u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e as foundational assertions of female masculine identity; considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch\/femme roles within lesbian communities; and 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition of \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e remains as insightful, timely, and necessary as ever.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44068057940013,"sku":"WHS-be0b3fb218d74c19b6eefaaaa2d617c4","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_dd87f729-e564-4b88-b9e7-25be784160e5.jpg?v=1758483630","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/female-masculinity-anniversary","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}