The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators
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Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female genderperformance! The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly CustomaryWorld of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-femalegender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collectionof original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, andcontroversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience thatknows the truth but celebrates the illusion. The book s contributors callon extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater,literature even military studies and use a variety of approaches to addresscommon themes and genres of presentation, performance, and style in a widerange of historical settings and cultures. The Drag Queen Anthology explores female impersonation in the past andpresent, addressing the often-contradictory cultural impulses found in theperformance of femininity. The book examines the important issues of thisunique form of gendering, including the cultural and sociopoliticalimplications of drag, the symbolic cultural ideals associated with women,the impact of the performer s social identities on his performance, and thereactions of the GLBT, straight, and feminist communities to drag. The booklooks at traditional drag performance, challenges accepted perceptionsabout female impersonation, and exposes the notion of the effeminate dragqueen as an outdated myth. The Drag Queen Anthology examines the important issues of male-to-femalegender performance, including: 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 CustomaryWorld of Female Impersonators is an indispensable resource on drag s coreelements of performance and parody and how each affects contemporarynotions of gender.
Preface (Judith Lorber) Acknowledgments The Absolutely Fabulous But Flawlessly Customary World of Drag Queens and Female Impersonators (Steven P. Schacht and Lisa Underwood) A Lovely War: Male to Female Cross-Dressing and Canadian Military Entertainment in World War II (Laurel Halladay) Wigs, Laughter, and Subversion: Charles Busch and the Strategies of Drag Performance (Richard Niles) The Beauty and the Beast: Reflections About the Socio-Historical and Subcultural Context of Drag Queens and "Tunten" in Berlin (Carsten Balzer) Moffies, Artists, and Queens: Race and the Production of South African Gay Male Drag (Amanda Lock Swarr) Ad/Dressing the Nation: Drag and Authenticity in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Jennifer Spruill) Chicks with Dicks, Men in Dresses: What it Means to be a Drag Queen (Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp) "Let the Drag Race Begin:" The Rewards of Becoming a Queen (Steven J. Hopkins) Transformance: Reading the Gospel in Drag (Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr.) Kind of a Drag: Gender, Race, and Ambivalence in The Birdcage and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (Mary Kirk) Racializing White Drag (Ragan Rhyne) Balancing Acts: Drag Queens, Gender and Faith (Constance R. Sullivan-Blum) A Comparative Analysis of Hijras and Drag Queens: The Subversive Possibilities and Limits of Parading Effeminacy and Negotiating Masculinity (Sandeep Bakshi) Beyond the Boundaries of the Classroom: Teaching About Gender and Sexuality at a Drag Show (Steven P. Schacht) Index Reference Notes Included
