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Female masculinity /

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 ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Halberstam, Jack, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to female masculinity: masculinity without men
  • Perverse presentism: the androgyne, the tribade, the female husband, and other pre-twentieth-century genders
  • "A writer of misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the discourse of inversion
  • Lesbian masculinity: even stone butches get the blues
  • Transgender butch: butch/FTM border wars and the masculine continuum
  • Looking butch: a rough guide to butches on film
  • Drag kings: masculinity and performance
  • Raging bull (dyke): new masculinities