In her first ebook because the severely acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the importance of the transgender physique in a provocative selection of essays on queer time and area. She provides a sequence of case stories excited by the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and substitute forms’especially woman and trans-masculinities as they exist inside of subcultures, and are appropriated inside mainstream culture.

In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing research of the existence and demise of Brandon Teena, a tender transgender guy who was once brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After mainstream representations of the transgender physique as exhibited within the media frenzy surrounding this hugely noticeable case and the Oscar-winning movie in response to Brandon's tale, Boys Don’t Cry, Halberstam turns her consciousness to the cultural and creative creation of queers themselves. She examines the “transgender gaze,” as rendered in small art-house movies like By Hook or by means of Crook, in addition to figurations of ambiguous embodiment within the paintings of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the impact of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comedian movies, akin to Austin Powers and The complete Monty, and, eventually, issues to dyke subcultures as one website for the advance of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities.

Considering the unexpected visibility of the transgender physique within the early twenty-first century opposed to the backdrop of adjusting conceptions of house and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the 1st full-length research of transgender representations in paintings, fiction, movie, video, and track. This pioneering publication bargains either a leaping off element for destiny research of transgenderism and a massive new solution to comprehend cultural structures of time and place.