{"product_id":"books-female-masculinity-by-jack-halberstam","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53767321649425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781478001621.jpg?v=1783935416","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-female-masculinity-by-jack-halberstam","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}