{"product_id":"female-masculinity-by-jack-halberstam","title":"Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam","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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness 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. Featuring a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinity remains as insightful, timely, and necessary as ever.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Prismatic Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51651987079479,"sku":"11167","price":399.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0843\/3097\/1447\/files\/female-masculinity_bd841d42b766643bd744a6d933f01f08.jpg?v=1770140062","url":"https:\/\/shop.prismaticpages.com\/products\/female-masculinity-by-jack-halberstam","provider":"Prismatic Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}