"Halberstam's marvelous new book combines fierce argumentation,
vivid description, and astute as well as hilarious commentary. The
author not only provides a powerful critique of common defenses and
dismissals of 'postmodernism, ' but offers a redefinition of
'identity politics' for the new millennium as well."
--Lisa Duggan, author of "Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism,
Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy"
"The wide-ranging scope of (Halberstam's) work both serves to
make her book accessible to many kinds of readers as well as to
show the wide scope in which her argument registers. This makes her
book a joy to read. Similarly, her wit and ability to capture large
theoretical terms in rich and layered (and funny!) images
contributes to the pleasure of this book of 'theory.'"
--"The Cream City Review"
"This small seductive book pours warmth as Halberstam confesses
and connects movements of pop culture and high art to a deeper
understanding of the potentials of the body. She includes us in her
world and its privileged understanding of her subject...."In a
Queer Time" displays Halberstam's sophisticated understanding of
contemporary culture in a plain and engaging tone."
--"Pop Matters"
"An extremely honest and provocative book. Judith Halberstam's
"In A Queer Time and Place" both validates and admires the beauty
of the transperson as well as the genderqueer in this new era of
identity performance. It is an incredible portrayal of the
partnership between trans issues and gay and lesbian issues that I
applaud with a full heart."
--JD Samson, from the band Le Tigre
"Halberstam's text is academically important, critiquing
identity politics andexamining uncommon but essential transgender
representations in art, film, and society."
--"The Bloomsbury Review"
"The mere raising of these issues is important to anyone
thinking about them, and the possibilities she suggests for
following them further make "In a Queer TIme and Place" an
essential addition to the queer studies shelf."
--"Rain Taxi"
In her first book since the critically acclaimed "Female
Masculinity," Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the
transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer
time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on
the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative
forms--especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist
within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream
culture.
In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the
life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was
brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at
mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in
the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the
Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, "Boys Don't Cry,"
Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic
production of queers themselves. She examines the "transgender
gaze," as rendered in small art-house films like "By Hook or By
Crook," as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art
of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat,
and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king
cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as "Austin Powers" and
"The Full Monty," and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one
site forthe development of queer counterpublics and queer
temporalities.
Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the
early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing
conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the
first full-length study of transgender representations in art,
fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a
jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an
important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and
place.
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