Books written by Judith Halberstam

  • Female Masculinity
    Female Masculinity

    7 The tendency to equate lesbian desire with fluidity is too general to trace in all its specificity , but it surfaces most clearly in the so - called sex debates documented by critics such as Alice Echols and Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter ...

  • In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
    In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    In Without Guarantees : In Honor of Stuart Hall , edited by P. Gilroy , L. Grossberg , and A. McRobbie , 30–37 . ... In Hidden from History : Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past , edited by M. Vicinus , G. Chauncey , and M. B. Duberman ...

  • The Queer Art of Failure
    The Queer Art of Failure

    DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div

  • The Drag King Book
    The Drag King Book

    What is a drag king? Why have drag kings not been as numerous or as popular as their drag queen counterparts in popular culture? Are drag kings lesbians? The Drag...

  • Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
    Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability

    This is the treatise on the asterisks for which we have been waiting, blending academic and popular discourse in that Halberstam way.

  • Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters
    Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters

    "Halberstam's argument is elegant in its simplicity, but far-reaching in its implications.