{"product_id":"female-masculinity","title":"Female Masculinity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\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. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe rereads Anne Lister's diaries and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness 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. Featuring a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinity remains as insightful, timely, and necessary as ever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brøglitteraturbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56321237614978,"sku":null,"price":320.0,"currency_code":"DKK","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0904\/3296\/2946\/files\/Skaermbillede2026-02-06kl.16.08.19.png?v=1770390588","url":"https:\/\/www.broeglitteraturbar.dk\/products\/female-masculinity","provider":"Brøglitteraturbar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}