Jack Halberstam
Jack Halberstam is a professor at the University of Southern California (USC), where he has been director of the Center for Feminist Research. He is also visiting professor at Columbia University. His book Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998), which has become a classic of queer literature, covers the different forms of masculinity developed by women over the last three centuries. The study and critique of forms of gender representation are the focus of much of his work, with titles such as The Drag King Book (1999, with artist Del LaGrace Volcano), In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (2005) and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal (2013).
