{"product_id":"gaga-feminism-sex-gender-and-the-end-of-normal-paperback","title":"Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Jack Halberstam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism, this \"provocative and pleasurable romp through contemporary gender politics . . . is as fun as it is illuminating\" (Ariel Levy, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? \u003ci\u003eGaga Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e 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 experiences and the heteronormative narratives that dominate popular media? We can embrace the chaos! With equal parts edge and wit, J. Jack Halberstam reveals how these symbolic ruptures open a critical space to embrace new ways of conceptualizing sex, love, and marriage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part handbook, part guidebook, and part sex manual, \u003ci\u003eGaga Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Jack Halberstam\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books, including \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Queer Art of Failure\u003c\/i\u003e. Currently a professor of American studies and of ethnicity and gender studies at the University of Southern California, Halberstam regularly speaks and writes on queer culture and gender issues and blogs at \u003ci\u003eBullyBloggers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42689493401663,"sku":"9780807010976","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/095226c12a2a337f381f9e262196e059.webp?v=1764985699","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/gaga-feminism-sex-gender-and-the-end-of-normal-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}