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Download pdf full article content list j jack halberstam, gaga feminism. Jack halberstam quotes author of female masculinity. In female masculinity judith halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Now it so happens in the course of popular culture studies that events sometimes outrun the.
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