Gaga Feminism Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal |
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| Author:
| Halberstam, J. Jack |
| Series title: | Queer Ideas/Queer Action Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8070-1098-3 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2012 |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $32.99 |
Book Description:
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Gaga Feminism provides a roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism. Judith "Jack" Halberstam, a well known academic in queer theory, gender, and cultural studies, makes sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late life lesbians, Spongebob Squarepants...
More Description Gaga Feminism provides a roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism. Judith "Jack" Halberstam, a well known academic in queer theory, gender, and cultural studies, makes sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late life lesbians, Spongebob Squarepants and queer families.