![]() ![]() ![]() "I embrace categorization as a way of creating places for acts, identities and modes of being which otherwise remain unnamable. I hope my book will force masculinity studies to make a radical break from white men's studies." Second, female masculinity disrupts contemporary cultural studies' accounts of masculinity within which masculinity always boils down to something like 'the social, cultural and political effects of male embodiment and male privilege'. Masculinity, in fact, often presents as non-performative or anti-performative (think of Clint Eastwood's laconic roles for example). First, it challenges the notion that genders are symmetrical - in other words saying that gender is "performative" may be particularly helpful when thinking about femininity but less useful in relation to masculinity. ![]() "The term 'female masculinity' stages several different kinds of interventions into contemporary gender theory and practice. The next year, 1999, in an interview in Genders, Halberstam wrote: ![]()
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