Female masculinity

Halberstam, Judith 1961- (Author).

Summary: This study of "masculinity without men" explores gender performances in which women assume masculine identities. The diversity of gender expressions among masculine women is charted from pre-lesbian nineteenth-century practices to contemporary drag king performances. Halberstam argues for a more nuanced understanding of "butchness" than is popularly permitted under the current régime of polarized gender identities.

Record details

ISBN: 0822322269 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0822322439 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Filmography: p. [319]-321.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-317) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men -- 2. Perverse Presentism: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders -- 3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion -- 4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues -- 5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum -- 6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film -- 7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance -- 8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities.