In her first book since the critically acclaimed "Female Masculinity," Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a ... read full description
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May 24, 2010
Michael
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In A Queer Time and Place (2005), Judith Halberstam offers an analysis of temporality and geography regarding queer texts. She offers that we should "try to think about queerness as an outcome of strange temporalities, imaginative life schedules, and eccentric economic practices," in order to "detach queerness from sexual identity and come closer to understanding Foucault's comment in 'Friendship as a Way of Life' that 'homosexuality threatens people as a 'w More...
In A Queer Time and Place (2005), Judith Halberstam offers an analysis of temporality and geography regarding queer texts. She offers that we should "try to think about queerness as an outcome of strange temporalities, imaginative life schedules, and eccentric economic practices," in order to "detach queerness from sexual identity and come closer to understanding Foucault's comment in 'Friendship as a Way of Life' that 'homosexuality threatens people as a 'w More...
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Aug 04, 2011
Patti
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I've been meaning to read In a Queer Time and Place for a while, both because of its significant influence within queer theory and, more recently, because I hope to work with Halberstam at USC. The book explores representations of transgender and queer bodies, looking at an expansive range of cultural texts from the 1990s--from fictionalized accounts of the murder of Brandon Teena to the influence of drag king culture on British comedies like Austin Powers to the archive of queercore music. Al
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Aug 28, 2008
lia
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At my library, when something is checked out, you can 'request' it. which essentially means that who ever has it, has to bring it back before they were planning to. Since faculty and staff here can check out a book for a year, books get 'requested' a lot. I do it, and it gets done to me. I had to do so with this book, and when I went to pick it up, the girl at the circ desk, said, 'oh YOU'RE the one'. Meaning I was the one who requested the book, and it just so happened, I had requested it away
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Apr 26, 2011
Sidewalk_Sotol
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This book puts as more questions into your head than it answers regarding media presentations of queer people and the production of queer-centric media. While academic, Halberstam does a reasonable job of making it accessible - at least to bachelor's degree-college-educated.
Noteworthy is the chapters on framing of the Matthew Shephard story - the urbanized nature of middle class activist queers creates a bias in how we look at queer people who grew up in and remain in rural areas. More...
Noteworthy is the chapters on framing of the Matthew Shephard story - the urbanized nature of middle class activist queers creates a bias in how we look at queer people who grew up in and remain in rural areas. More...
Oct 29, 2009
John
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Halberstam is a big deal in queer circles. This isn't her biggest book, apparently, but it's a nice investigation of contemporary film and art and music. Some of the cultural products help to depict what transgender really looks like. Her discussions of how queer time and place are different from normative time and place were particularly poignant.
Feb 20, 2008
Samuel
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There are a lot of really good things about this book - one that really hit home for me was Halberstam's analysis of sexuality and rural life vis a vis the Brandon Teena case. She does a good job critiquing the urban bias found in a lot of queer theory, admits her own past mistakes (a rare and admirable trait in scholars), and affords rural issues about sexuality the nuance and thoughtfulness that they deserve. Plus, her chapter about Austin Powers is funny as shit. It made me remember one of th
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Nov 21, 2007
Joe
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This book does what I expect from a good scholarly essay -- prompts some compelling lines of thought, whets my appetite for more and gives a satisfying bibliography for my own exploration. Unfortunately, it does little of what I expect from a good scholarly book, which is mucking around hardcore with one sustained argument until I feel like we've skullf****d it good and proper.
It's a collection of (loosely) related essays. *shrug* Pretty decent as essays go, with the sideways thinkin More...
It's a collection of (loosely) related essays. *shrug* Pretty decent as essays go, with the sideways thinkin More...
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Feb 09, 2012
Super interesting, though far from perfect. I read the first two chapters for a class and intend to finish this as soon as I have the time to do so...
Nov 07, 2010
Amy
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A lot of great arguments are presented in this book. I'm not sure if they were all answered, but it's some good thinking material!
Jul 26, 2011
This book really inspired the transgender look/gaze in popular culture. It helped me see art in a different light.
Oct 27, 2011
queer temporality, queer temporality, queer temporality! i am glad somebody wrote about le tigre hot topic.
Oct 29, 2008
Krista
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A really good use of queer theory in non-sexuality-based ways, looking at the queerness of time and place through a lens of trans-ness. Not simple reading, but very effectively done and an important part of a lot of the work I did in grad school.
10/08 - I'm re-reading this book post-grad school to see what I think of it when it isn't assigned - when, in fact, I have no requisite reading. It is excellent, actually, better than I remembered and far more readable.
10/08 - I'm re-reading this book post-grad school to see what I think of it when it isn't assigned - when, in fact, I have no requisite reading. It is excellent, actually, better than I remembered and far more readable.
Jun 12, 2009
Jayden
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I liked it. it was little more lit/art/film review than i was hoping for, but i think halberstam has some really interesting analyses around drag king culture and a couple of different films (boys don't cry and by hook or by crook specfically). also, i like the interwoven discussion regarding authenticity. i'd recommend it.
Aug 17, 2008
Tina
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Judith Halberstam is one of the modern thinkers on sexuality and sexual identity that I respect and enjoy reading. This recent book of hers provides a coherent diverse look at transgender identity.
A must-read as a companion to reading her other important work, Female Masculinity.
A must-read as a companion to reading her other important work, Female Masculinity.
Jul 01, 2007
Cait
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I really wanted to love this book, and it did have its interesting moments, but I felt like its attempt to straddle theory, art, and narrative ended up just weakening its footing in all three. I found her book of photographs of Drag Kings more illuminating than this one.
Jun 10, 2007
TDF Pamela
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A fascinating collection of essays by Judith Halberstam on the fluidity of transgender identity. I found the chapters on Brandon Teena to be particularly interesting, and I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in queer theory or transgender/transsexuality.
Feb 21, 2008
Sara Jaye
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Not as thrilling, to me at least, as Female Masculinity was - it lacks some of that previous works' groundedness, and sometimes treads very murky identity territory in terms of who gets to define what for whom. (If that even made any sense.)
Sep 15, 2010
megan
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argues for a queer time and space outside the logic of capital accumulation; explores the transgender body as the embodiment of postmodern subjectivity; looks at the culture that rose around brandon teena. AND MORE
Aug 22, 2010
Oliver
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I'm excited to say that I now have a favorite queer theorist and it is J. Halberstam!!!
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