{"product_id":"female-masculinity","title":"Female Masculinity","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jack Halberstam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615063564668,"sku":"9781478001621","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781478001621_29693a18-59fd-43f0-bbd1-f9b8a88ef2a2.jpg?v=1725881783","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/female-masculinity","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}