The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators
Underwood, Lisa. Ed(S): Underwood, Lisa; Schacht, Steven P.
Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance!
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience that knows the truth but celebrates the illusion. The book’s contributors call on extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater, literatureeven military studiesand use a variety of approaches to address common themes and genres of presentation, performance, and style in ... Read more
- how drag queen performance is used to attain situational status and power
- how drag queens challenge contemporary notions of gender
- what embodiment occurs when men undertake performances of femininity
- how drag queen performance is viewed as a theatrical presentation of self
- what representations of drag queens in film suggest about current gender relations
- why communities organize around drag queen performers
- how drag queen performance differs on-stage and off
- how male-to-female gendered performance intersects with performances of sexual identity, social class, race, age, and ethnicity
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators is an indispensable resource on drag’s core elements of performance and parody and how each affects contemporary notions of gender.
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