Jack Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as Female Masculinity and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press.
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction: Low Theory 1
1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27
2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53
3. The Queer Art of Failure 87
4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123
5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147
6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173
Notes 189
Bibliography 193
Index 201
