- Hardcover: 330 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press (1 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0822322269
- ISBN-13: 978-0822322269
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Female Masculinity is a full-on attack on the idea that masculinity is exclusively or even primarily the property of men. On the contrary, says Judith Halberstam, women have been practising their own, alternative, masculinities for at least two hundred years... Female Masculinity aims to help restore a sense of butch pride, and to validate the entitlement of women to their own masculinity. There's much to debate and disagree with in Female Masculinity ... But the book's the first full-length study in a crucial area and it's a great starting-point.DIVA 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. Nothing like it exists, period. Esther Newton, author of Cherry Grove, Fire Island In this landmark study, Halberstam consolidates her position as a key theoriest within Queer scholarship. Female Masculinity is an immensely persuasive, powerfully-written text that imparts exciting and important theoretical ideas... I do not hesitate in locating this book at the forefront of contemporary gender theory."--Maria Antoniou, Feminist Theory, 1(3) 2001
Esther Newton, author of Cherry Grove, Fire Island
Female Masculinity is a very important work. Nothing like it exists, period.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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A highly readable and stunning history of female masculinity in Britain and the USA, considering court cases, literature, film, pop culture and drag king performances. I learned that the most interesting masculinities are not male, and that the history of the occlusion of butchness is a crucial foundation for understanding gender construction of all kinds.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This is a good introduction to the topic. Helps you think through the difference between masculinity and maleness. Wish there were more about how race and class effect masculinity.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Halberstam's latest book is a rather lackluster rehashing of the latest trend in queer theory. Instead of endless pages of highly problematic ethnographic research, Halberstam would have been much better served if she had included a fem perspective in her unabashed celebration of butch subjectivity. A rather ho-hum effort from an otherwise promising young scholar. One only hopes that she can live up to the promise of her earlier book, Skin Shows.
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