{"product_id":"female-masculinity-9781478001621","title":"Female Masculinity","description":"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\u003e 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. 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\u003e Featuring 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack Halberstam is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Queer Art of Failure\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSkin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e, both also published by Duke University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50610780307730,"sku":"9781478001621","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d3e2e309-9fc1-4e0d-8e93-d23b45a28f48.jpg?v=1732349280","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/female-masculinity-9781478001621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}