A review by stguac
Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam

3.0

pretty outdated with its terms and ideas so keep that in mind if you choose to pick it up. i think halberstam needed to expand female masculinity to include trans women's masculinities because if you want to talk transgressive, id say thats pretty transgressive right there. butch trans women are also not a particularly new concept either; knowing this, halberstams focus on 'female bodies' was particularly annoying. the book also lost me a lot by choosing to focus on cinema, an area i have zero familiarity with.

ultimately i found it useful and a pretty great read. the chapter on stone butches and trans men/ftms was particularly enlightening. id say give this a read anyway but i wouldnt call it 'essential' by any means.