LEADER 04533nam 22007454 450 001 9910813712803321 005 20140423021019.0 010 $a0-8223-7811-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822378112 035 $a(CKB)2550000001280286 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10867873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001062813 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12404481 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001062813 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11033730 035 $a(PQKB)10454875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007808 035 $a(OCoLC)1141671989 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse79998 035 $a877960942 035 $a(DE-B1597)552680 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822378112 035 $a(OCoLC)1136217501 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001280286 100 $a20140423d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFemale masculinity /$fJudith Halberstam 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (345 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2226-9 311 $a0-8223-2243-9 320 $aFilmography: pages [319]-321. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [307]-317) and index. 327 $g1.$tAn Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men --$g2.$tPerverse Presentism: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders --$g3.$t"A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion --$g4.$tLesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues --$g5.$tTransgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum --$g6.$tLooking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film --$g7.$tDrag Kings: Masculinity and Performance --$g8.$tRaging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities. 330 $aMasculinity 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. 606 $aLesbians$xIdentity 606 $aGender identity 606 $aSex role 606 $aTransgenderism 606 $aLesbianism in literature 606 $aLesbianism in motion pictures 606 $aGender identity in literature 606 $aGender identity in motion pictures 615 0$aLesbians$xIdentity. 615 0$aGender identity. 615 0$aSex role. 615 0$aTransgenderism. 615 0$aLesbianism in literature. 615 0$aLesbianism in motion pictures. 615 0$aGender identity in literature. 615 0$aGender identity in motion pictures. 676 $a305.48/9664 676 $a306.7663 700 $aHalberstam$b Judith$f1961-$0542698 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813712803321 996 $aFemale masculinity$93949671 997 $aUNINA