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Jack Halberstam

    December 15, 1961
    Female Masculinity
    The Queer Art of Failure
    Skin Shows
    Trans
    Rebecca Horn
    Wild Things
    • 2024

      Rebecca Horn

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      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 The collection includes installation photos and previously unpublished historical materials, reflecting Horn's significant impact on contemporary art.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.

      Rebecca Horn
    • 2020

      Wild Things

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.8(91)Add rating

      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

      Wild Things
    • 2020

      Wild Things

      The Disorder of Desire

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Exploring the intersection of wildness and queerness, the book presents an alternative history of sexuality throughout the twentieth century. It theorizes wildness as a space of unpredictability that challenges modernity's structured norms. By engaging with diverse cultural texts and figures, from literature to revolutionary history, the author reveals how wildness enables transgressive identities and practices. This work opens new avenues for queer theory and encourages a broader understanding of wild thinking, offering fresh perspectives on identity and resistance.

      Wild Things
    • 2018

      Trans

      • 178 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      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.

      Trans
    • 2013

      Gaga Feminism

      • 184 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.8(58)Add rating

      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

      Gaga Feminism
    • 2012
    • 2011
    • 2005
    • 1998

      Female Masculinity

      • 329 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      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.

      Female Masculinity
    • 1995

      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.

      Skin Shows