The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous But Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators

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The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators
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CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators
A Lovely War: Male to Female Cross-Dressing and Canadian Military Entertainment in World War II
Wigs, Laughter, and Subversion: Charles Busch and Strategies of Drag Performance
The Beauty and the Beast: Reflections About the Socio-Historical and Subcultural Context of Drag Queens and “Tunten” in Berlin
Moffies, Artists, and Queens: Race and the Production of South African Gay Male Drag
Ad/Dressing the Nation: Drag and Authenticity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Chicks with Dicks, Men in Dresses: What It Means to Be a Drag Queen
“Let the Drag Race Begin”: The Rewards of Becoming a Queen
Transformance: Reading the Gospel in Drag
Kind of a Drag: Gender, Race, and Ambivalence in The Birdcage and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
Racializing White Drag
Balancing Acts: Drag Queens, Gender and Faith
A Comparative Analysis of Hijras and Drag Queens: The Subversive Possibilities and Limits of Parading Effeminacy and Negotiating Masculinity
Beyond the Boundaries of the Classroom: Teaching About Gender and Sexuality at a Drag Show
Index