Female masculinity"Thank goodness for the dashing Judith Halberstam! Her new book is a smart, entertaining and informed tour of that most threatening of cultural identities: the masculine female. Oh, yum!"--Kate Bornstein, author of "My Gender Workbook" ""Female Masculinity" is a very important work that scholars in cultural studies will be talking about for years. Nothing like it exists, period."--Esther Newton, author of "Cherry Grove, Fire Island" |
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Newton also defines "camp" in relation to gay male practices and gay male
humor. "Performance," of course, emerges out of Judith Butler's influential theory
of gender trouble, in which she suggests that drag parodies "the notion of an
original ...
Newton also defines "camp" in relation to gay male practices and gay male
humor. "Performance," of course, emerges out of Judith Butler's influential theory
of gender trouble, in which she suggests that drag parodies "the notion of an
original ...
Page 237
drag (queen) and butch-femme with camp."13 Newton is concerned that a queer
formulation of camp based on contemporary butch-femme styles ignores the
historical fact of a lack of camp cultures within the dyke bar culture of the fifties
and ...
drag (queen) and butch-femme with camp."13 Newton is concerned that a queer
formulation of camp based on contemporary butch-femme styles ignores the
historical fact of a lack of camp cultures within the dyke bar culture of the fifties
and ...
Page 302
Case identifies camp as an ironic and queer rejection of realism which can as
easily be deployed by lesbians as by gay men. 16 Kate Davy, "Fe/Male
Impersonation: The Discourse of Camp," in 77k Politics and Poetics of Camp, ed.
Moe Meyer ...
Case identifies camp as an ironic and queer rejection of realism which can as
easily be deployed by lesbians as by gay men. 16 Kate Davy, "Fe/Male
Impersonation: The Discourse of Camp," in 77k Politics and Poetics of Camp, ed.
Moe Meyer ...
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Female masculinity
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Contents
The Androgyne the Tribade the Female | 45 |
John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse | 75 |
Even Stone Butches Get the Blues m | 111 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Female masculinity |
| Author | Judith Halberstam |
| Edition | 5, illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Duke University Press, 1998 |
| Length | 329 pages |
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