| Description |
xiv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 319-321. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317) and index. |
| Contents |
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 and 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. |
| Summary |
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 also 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. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviours and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. |
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Lesbians -- Identity.
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Lesbians -- Identity. |
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Gender identity.
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Gender identity. |
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Sex role.
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Sex role. |
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Gender nonconformity.
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Gender nonconformity. |
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Lesbianism in literature.
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Lesbianism in literature. |
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Lesbianism in motion pictures.
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Lesbianism in motion pictures. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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Gender identity in motion pictures.
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Gender identity in motion pictures. |
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Lesbians. |
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Gender identity. |
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Gender roles. |
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Lesbian identity. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Halberstam, Judith, 1961- Female masculinity. Durham : Duke University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)1089720177 |
| ISBN |
0822322269 (alkaline paper) |
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9780822322269 (alkaline paper) |
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0822322439 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780822322436 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780822322436 |
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