In a Queer Time and Place av J. Jack Halberstam

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<p><b>The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music</b><br/>In her first book since the critically acclaimed <i>Female Masculinity</i>, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms¿ especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.<br/><b>In a Queer Time and Place</b> opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon''s story, <i>Boys Don¿t Cry</i>, Halberstam turns her attention to the cult