No woman’s land? Female Masculinity in the borderlands

Mackay, Finn

Abstract

“Borders between gender categories, then, are zones of overlap, not lines” (Hale, 1998:323).

The borders Jacob Hale was referring to in this quote, are those between trans man and butch lesbian in particular. Hale argued that, rather than clear lines of separation, there was much shared territory to be found between these categories, and in those spaces were potential new categories of their own, in these overlapping border zones.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Nov 6, 2018
• Journal: Discover Society
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: lesbian, masculinity, trans, gender, butch
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/857293
• Publisher URL: https://discoversociety.org/2018/11/06/no-womans-land-female-masculinity-in-the-borderlands/
• Related Public URLs: https://discoversociety.org/2018/11/06/no-womans-land-female-masculinity-in-the-borderlands/