Female Masculinity German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon

German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon

a metaphysical tradition assigned to the dusty glass cabinets of the arcane

In this intimate

rebellious and refreshingly relatable – and their lives hold surprising lessons for us today

Female Masculinity German-Jewish painter Charlotte SalomonIn this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam 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 centuries. Demonstrating how female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth