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Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith 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 hundred years. In this first full-length study on the subject, Halberstam catalogues th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halberstam, Judith
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi: Zubaan, c2012.
Edition:Twentieth anniversary edition with a new preface.
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.
Queer theory.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the 2018 edition
  • 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.

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