Find a copy in the library
Finding libraries that hold this item...
Details
Document Type: | Book |
---|---|
All Authors / Contributors: |
Judith Halberstam |
ISBN: | 0822322439 9780822322436 |
OCLC Number: | 318280977 |
Awards: | Winner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Nonfiction) 1999 Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Studies) 1998 Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender) 1998 |
Description: | xiv, 329 p. : il. ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Illustrations; Preface 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 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 Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index |
Responsibility: | Judith Halberstam. |
Reviews
Editorial reviews
Publisher Synopsis
"Thank goodness for the dashing Judith Halberstam! Her new book is a smart, entertaining and informed tour of that most threatening of cultural identities: the masculine female. Oh, yum!"-Kate Bornstein, author of My Gender Workbook "Female Masculinity is a very important work that scholars in cultural studies will be talking about for years. Nothing like it exists, period."-Esther Newton, author of Cherry Grove, Fire Island Read more...
User-contributed reviews
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.
Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers.
Be the first.


Tags
Add tags for "Female masculinity".
Be the first.