Gaga Feminism Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal

Name: Gaga Feminism Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
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ISBN: 9780807010976

ISBN-10: 0807010979

ISBN-13: 9780807010976

Edition: 2013

Authors: J. Jack Halberstam

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A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminismWhy are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam 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. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the dissonance between these real lived experiences and the…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 9/3/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

J. Jack Halberstam is the author of four books, including Female Masculinity and In a Queer Time and Place. Currently a professor of English and gender studies and director of the Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California, Halberstam regularly speaks on queer culture, gender studies, and popular culture, and blogs at The Bully Bloggers.



A Note from the Series Editor


Preface Going Gaga


Introduction



Gaga Feminism for Beginners



Gaga Genders



Gaga Sexualities: The End of Normal



Gaga Relations: The End of Marriage



Gaga Manifesto


Acknowledgments


Notes