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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...

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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, 2018.
Subjects:
Lesbians > Identity.
Gender identity.
Sex role.
Gender nonconformity.
Lesbianism in literature.
Lesbianism in motion pictures.
Gender identity in literature.
Gender identity in motion pictures.
Lesbiennes > Identité.
Identité de genre.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Transgenrisme.
Lesbianisme dans la littérature.
Lesbianisme au cinéma.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
Identité de genre au cinéma.
sex role.
transgenderism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Gender identity
Gender identity in literature
Gender identity in motion pictures
Gender nonconformity
Lesbianism in literature
Lesbianism in motion pictures
Lesbians > Identity
Sex role
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition; 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 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 MasculinitiesNotes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

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