Parasites and perverts: an introduction to gothic monstrosity -- Making monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Gothic surface, gothic depth: the subject of secrecy in Stevenson and Wilde -- Technologies of monstrosity: Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Reading counterclockwise: paranoid gothic or gothic paranoia? -- Bodies that splatter: queers and chain saws -- Skinflick: posthuman genderin Jonathan Demme's The silence of the lambs -- Conclusion: serial killing.
Proposes low theory as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions
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 hundred years. This book uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a an understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologise them.
Examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space
Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which the wild-a space located beyond normative borders of sexuality-offers sources of opposition to knowing and being that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern subject. číst celé
Analyzes the transformative political and societal shifts of recent decades that have paved the way for revolutionary conceptualizations of gender and marriage, using Lady Gaga as a symbol of a new era that embraces sexual fluidity
Analyzes the transformative political and societal shifts of recent decades that have paved the way for revolutionary conceptualizations of gender and marriage, using Lady Gaga as a symbol of a new era that embraces sexual fluidity.
Exploring the multifaceted career of Rebecca Horn, this catalog highlights her evolution as an artist from the 1960s to the present. It showcases her innovative use of dance as a medium in her choreographic works, spanning paper creations, performances, mechanical sculptures, and expansive installations. The collection includes installation photos and previously unpublished historical materials, reflecting Horn's significant impact on contemporary art. Contributions from notable curators and scholars further contextualize her role in major international exhibitions.
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has comes not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such an extensive rethinking of our understanding of gendered embodiment? How did a stigmatized identity become so central to US and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? In Trans, Jack Halberstam explores these recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a non-gendered, gender optional, or gender-hacked future.
Erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung versammelt der Band zwei Grundlagentexte der Trans Studies des* international rezipierten Theoretikers* Jack Halberstam: ein Kapitel seiner* 2018 erschienenen Monografie Trans*: »A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability«, in dem sich Halberstam mit jüngsten Veränderungen in der Bedeutung des geschlechtsspezifischen Körpers und dessen Repräsentation auseinandersetzt und die Möglichkeiten einer nicht gegenderten Zukunft auslotet, sowie den Artikel »Unbuilding Gender. Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark«, in dem Halberstam das Architektonische für die Frage der Transgender-(De)Konstruktion in den Blick nimmt.