Gaga Feminism by J Jack Halberstam
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? Gaga Feminism answers these questions while attempting to make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the dissonance between these real experiences and the heteronormative narratives that dominate popular media? We can embrace the chaos With equal parts edge and wit, J. Jack Halberstam reveals how these symbolic ruptures open a critical space to embrace new ways of conceptualizing sex, love, and marriage. Using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new era, Halberstam deftly unpacks what the pop superstar symbolizes, to whom and why. The result is a provocative manifesto of creative mayhem--a roadmapto sex and gender for the twenty-first century--that holds Lady Gaga as an exemplar of a new kind of feminism that privileges gender and sexual fluidity. Part handbook, part guidebook, and part sex manual, Gaga Feminism is the first book to take seriously the collapse of heterosexuality and find signposts in the wreckage to a new and different way of doing sex and gender.
Jack Halberstam is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and author of The Queer Art of Failure, Female Masculinity, and Skin Shows, all also published by Duke University Press. Tavia Nyong'o is Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater Studies at Yale University, editor of Social Text, and author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780807010983 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807010987 |
| Title | Gaga Feminism |
| Author | J Jack Halberstam |
| Series | Queer Ideas Queer Action Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Year published | 2012-09-18 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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