Bøger af Jack Halberstam

Proposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutions

In this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinity-which features a new preface by the author-Jack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities, cataloging the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.

Artist Rebecca Horn sees herself as an inventor, director, author, composer, poet, and, first andforemost, a choreographer. She uses the idea of embodiment and creates symbols to expressthe interconnectedness, at a technical and physical level, between her first works on paper in the1960s, her early performances and films of the 1970s, her mechanical sculptures from the 1980son, and the large-scale installations she embarked on in the 1990s. Horn repeatedly uses thelanguage of dance as a medium and catalyst for her choreographic fictions. The catalogue showsa selection of her works spanning six decades and includes installation shots of her artworks inthe exhibition, and unpublished historical images.Rebecca Horn, b. 1944, is one of the most important contemporary artists on the internationalscene by virtue of her transdisciplinary work. She has featured in numerous editions of documenta,the Venice Biennale, the Biennale of Sydney, the Tokyo Biennale, the São Paulo Biennale, andCarnegie International. Hendrik Folkerts is Curator of international contemporary art and ExhibitionDirector at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Jack Halberstam is Director of the Institute for Researchon Women, Gender and Sexuality at Columbia University. Jana Baumann is Senior Curator atHaus der Kunst in Munich. Nancy Spector is a Curator, who has held positions at the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Brooklyn Museum. Timothy Baum, expert on Dadaand surrealism, was a companion and performer in Rebecca Horn's films.

Gender theorist Jack Halberstam and author Lynne Tillman discuss the roles of writing, bewilderment and wildness in their work and livesPublished on the occasion of Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the book series Who Is Queen? adapts conversations between pairs of notable writers, theorists, philosophers and musicians into contrapuntal texts intertwined with archival photographs and additional writings.Jack Halberstam (born 1961) is a professor of gender studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of seven books, including Skin Shows (1995), Female Masculinity (1998), The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020). Halberstam is now finishing a second volume on wildness titled The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy.Lynne Tillman (born 1947) is a novelist, short story writer and essayist. Her most recent novel is Men and Apparitions (2018); her latest story collection, The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories (2016), was published in Spanish in Argentina (2021).

Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which the wild-a space located beyond normative borders of sexuality-offers sources of opposition to knowing and being that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern subject.

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. This book explores the recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a non-gendered, gender optional, or gender-hacked future.

"Halberstam's argument is elegant in its simplicity, but far-reaching in its implications. Providing a strikingly original account of the Gothic, she proposes through her work a cultural history of fear and prejudice and, thus, paves the way for a new scholarly enterprise."--Ann Cvetkovich, University of Texas, Austin