Jack Halberstam is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of several books, including The Queer Art of Failure and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press.

Illustrations  ix
Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition  xi
Preface  xxiii
1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men  1
2. Perverse Presentation: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders  45
3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion  75
4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues  111
5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum  141
6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film  175
7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance  231
8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities  267
Notes  279
Bibliography  307
Filmography  319
Index  323