Item
Female Masculinity
title
Female Masculinity
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publisher
Duke University Press
publication year
1998
description
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. 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.
education level
temporal
reviewer
Charlie Orlando Leppert
was created by
Halberstam, Jack