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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures, 3) by J. Jack Halberstam; Judith Halberstam is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Hook or By Crook , as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag ki

Who reads In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures, 3)?

Author

J. Jack Halberstam; Judith Halberstam

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814735855

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Gender Studies, Psychology, Fiction

Rating

3.91 / 5 (818 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14