In a Queer Time and Place

Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

Author: Judith Halberstam
ISBN: 9780814735855

In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Don’t Cry, Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the “transgender gaze,” as rendered in small art-house films like By Ho

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 2005-01-01

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Feminist, Literary Criticism / LGBT

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: LGBTQIA+)