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Gaga feminism : sex, gender, and the end of normal / J. Jack Halberstam.

By: Halberstam, J. JackMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Queer Ideas/Queer Action SerPublisher: New York : Beacon Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (144 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807010990Subject(s): Lady Gaga | Feminism--Social aspects | Sex--Social aspectsAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Gaga FeminismDDC classification: 305.42 Online access: Open e-book
Contents:
Intro -- Other Books by J. Jack Halberstam -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note from the Series Editor -- Preface Going Gaga -- Introduction -- One: Gaga Feminism for Beginners -- Two: Gaga Genders -- Three: Gaga Sexualities: The End of Normal -- Four: Gaga Relations: The End of Marriage -- Five: Gaga Manifesto -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Copyright.
Summary: A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminismWhy are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?  In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam answers these questions while attempting to make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the dissonance between these real lived experiences and the heteronormative narratives that dominate popular media? We can embrace the chaos! With equal parts edge and wit, Halberstam reveals how these symbolic ruptures open a critical space to embrace new ways of conceptualizing sex, love, and marriage. Using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new era, Halberstam deftly unpacks what the pop superstar symbolizes, to whom and why. The result is a provocative manifesto of creative mayhem, a roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, that holds Lady Gaga as an exemplar of a new kind of feminism that privileges gender and sexual fluidity. Part handbook, part guidebook, and part sex manual, Gaga Feminism is the first book to take seriously the collapse of heterosexuality and find signposts in the wreckage to a new and different way of doing sex and gender.
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Intro -- Other Books by J. Jack Halberstam -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note from the Series Editor -- Preface Going Gaga -- Introduction -- One: Gaga Feminism for Beginners -- Two: Gaga Genders -- Three: Gaga Sexualities: The End of Normal -- Four: Gaga Relations: The End of Marriage -- Five: Gaga Manifesto -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Copyright.

A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminismWhy are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?  In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam answers these questions while attempting to make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the dissonance between these real lived experiences and the heteronormative narratives that dominate popular media? We can embrace the chaos! With equal parts edge and wit, Halberstam reveals how these symbolic ruptures open a critical space to embrace new ways of conceptualizing sex, love, and marriage. Using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new era, Halberstam deftly unpacks what the pop superstar symbolizes, to whom and why. The result is a provocative manifesto of creative mayhem, a roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, that holds Lady Gaga as an exemplar of a new kind of feminism that privileges gender and sexual fluidity. Part handbook, part guidebook, and part sex manual, Gaga Feminism is the first book to take seriously the collapse of heterosexuality and find signposts in the wreckage to a new and different way of doing sex and gender.

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