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Queering drag : redefining the discourse of gender-bending /

Theatrical gender-bending, also called drag, is a popular form of entertainment and a subject of scholarly study. However, most drag studies do not question the standard words and ideas used to convey this performance genre. Drawing on a rich body of archival and ethnographic research, Meredith Hell...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heller, Meredith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Bloomington] : Indiana University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What's in a name? Redefining the discourse of gender-bending
  • "Masculine women, feminine men": variety and vaudevillian male impersonators
  • Mythical, "sexless" characters: identity borders in El Teatro Campesino
  • The "first punch" at Stonewall: counteridentification butch acts
  • Bent means "not quite straight": kinging as disidentification
  • Conclusion: bending rhetoric.