J. Jack Halberstam is the author of four books, including "Female Masculinity" and "The Queer Art of Failure." Currently a professor of American studies and of ethnicity and gender studies at the University of Southern California, Halberstam regularly speaks and writes on queer culture and gender issues and blogs at "BullyBloggers."
"Jack Halberstam--the king of feminism--has managed to make sense
of pregnant men, Lady Gaga, gay marriage, and the advent of the
bromance in this provocative and pleasurable romp through
contemporary gender politics. "Gaga Feminism" is as fun as it is
illuminating."--Ariel Levy, author of "Female Chauvinist Pigs" and
staff writer at the" New Yorker"
"Like the remixed and mashed cultures that produced her, Lady Gaga
defies simple logics and explanations. Perhaps no scholar is better
equipped to go "there "with Gaga than J. Jack Halberstam, whose
work, like Gaga, resists categorization. If "Gaga Feminism" is a
politics of free form and improvisation, Halberstam bravely lets
loose the reins."--Mark Anthony Neal, co-editor "That's the Joint:
The Hip-Hop Studies Reader"
"In this important and spirited manifesto, Jack Halberstam's
signature wit, depth, and wide-ranging cultural appetites are on
full display. Amid Halberstam's stories about the many-gendered
world we live in, this book gives us hope that we might move toward
ever more liberated modes of living."--Sara Marcus, author of
"Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl
Revolution"
"Jack Halberstam's wild, playful intelligence wreaks dazzling havoc
on pop culture and feminism and gender--from butch fish to deadbeat
dudes, marriage, hetero(in)flexibilty, rom-coms, global capitalism,
and, of course, Lady Gaga. Halberstam is the crier for and
contributor to a gleeful anarchism that begins in the streets or
the universities or maybe the television, and comes raging into our
most intimate spheres."--Michelle Tea, author of "Valencia "
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