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Publication Date: 2004
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Within the New Moment--An Interview with Judith Halberstam
Crowley, Vicki
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v25 n4 p459-465 2004
In April 2002 Judith Halberstam, academic, cultural critic and author of "Female Masculinity", toured Australia giving public and academic lectures about her recent work on sub-cultures, the Brandon Teena archive, representations of the transgender body and her notion of female masculinity. The interview is introduced through a brief sketch of her argument for female masculinity. The interview pursues three elements of her work. First, Halberstam's reflections on the implications that female masculinity and transgender have for teaching and pedagogy; second, the issue of humanism and post humanism as a site of concerted challenge and intervention; and finally, the interview turns to Halberstam's thoughts on an often overlooked area of sexualities--the relationship between queer theory and postcoloniality. Halberstam's responses are located amid what she sees as an era of new experimentalism. This era of experimentalism is perhaps an era where transgenderism acts as some kind of reorganizing of gender norms in which gender differences instantiate themselves as the baseline from which gender-sex-sexualities are understood and experienced. It is an argument positioned beyond binaries where multiple bodily aesthetics and practices collude and collide in the practice of displacing of singularity and authenticity. (Contains 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Masculinity, Sexual Identity, Gender Differences, Teacher Role, Role of Education, Humanism, Social Structure, Foreign Policy, Context Effect, Systems Approach
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Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Canada
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