Gaga Feminism

Jack Halberstam the king of feminism has managed to make sense of pregnant men, Lady Gaga, gay marriage, and the advent of the bromance in this provocative and pleasurable romp through contemporary gender politics. <i>Gaga Feminism</i> is as fun as it is illuminating. <b> </b>Ariel Levy, author of <i>Female Chauvinist Pigs</i> and staff writer at the<i> New Yorker</i> Like the remixed and mashed cultures that produced her, Lady Gaga defies simple logics and explanations. Perhaps no scholar is better equipped to go <i>there </i>with Gaga than J. Jack Halberstam, whose work, like Gaga, resists categorization. If <i>Gaga Feminism</i> is a politics of free form and improvisation, Halberstam bravely lets loose the reins. Mark Anthony Neal, co-editor <i>That s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader</i> In this important and spirited manifesto, Jack Halberstam s signature wit, depth, and wide-ranging cultural appetites are on full display. Amid Halberstam s stories about the many-gendered world we live in, this book gives us hope that we might move toward ever more liberated modes of living. Sara Marcus, author of <i>Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution</i> Jack Halberstam s wild, playful intelligence wreaks dazzling havoc on pop culture and feminism and gender from butch fish to deadbeat dudes, marriage, hetero(in)flexibilty, rom-coms, global capitalism, and, of course, Lady Gaga. Halberstam is the crier for and contributor to a gleeful anarchism that begins in the streets or the universities or maybe the television, and comes raging into our most intimate spheres. Michelle Tea, author of <i>Valencia</i>