Female MasculinityDuke University Press, 1998 - Broj stranica: 329 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. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, 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. She rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also 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. Female Masculinity signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders. |
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... feminism within an androgynous aesthetic . The suppression of role playing , therefore , by lesbian feminists in the 1970s and 1980s further erased an elaborate and carefully scripted language of desire that butch and femme dykes had ...
... feminism within an androgynous aesthetic . The suppression of role playing , therefore , by lesbian feminists in the 1970s and 1980s further erased an elaborate and carefully scripted language of desire that butch and femme dykes had ...
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... feminist versions of sex culture is that the dominant strands , at least of cultural lesbian feminism , never replaced the erotic codes and practices of the butch - femme bar culture from the 1950s and 1960s with anything but negative ...
... feminist versions of sex culture is that the dominant strands , at least of cultural lesbian feminism , never replaced the erotic codes and practices of the butch - femme bar culture from the 1950s and 1960s with anything but negative ...
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... feminists of the 1970s " defined these butch - femme communities as an anathema to feminism , " we must as- sume that lesbian feminists had conceived of some social and sexual codes and systems to replace what they saw as anachronistic ...
... feminists of the 1970s " defined these butch - femme communities as an anathema to feminism , " we must as- sume that lesbian feminists had conceived of some social and sexual codes and systems to replace what they saw as anachronistic ...
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