Jack Halberstam
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Gender, a movable incarnation: Jack Halberstam and the trans
The CCCB’s Politics of Desire lecture series invites us to consider sexuality as a possible resistance to heteronormativity. In February 2017, Jack Halberstam gave a lecture on “Trans* bodies”.
Renowned scholar Jack Halberstam is keynote speaker for Mercy Summit on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
On Friday, April 12, Salve Regina will host its annual Mercy Summit on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the O’Hare Academic Building. This event is sponsored by the Presidential Commission on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and it is the University’s hope that the summit will see wide participation from the campus community.
Books by Jack Halberstam
“Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)” (2020)
In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century.
“Female Masculinity” (2019)
In 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.
“Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (Volume 3) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)” (2018)
In Trans*, Jack Halberstam explores these recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a nongendered, gender-optional, or gender-queer future.
“Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)” (2013)
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? Gaga Feminism answers these questions while attempting to make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades.
“The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)” (2011)
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives.
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