Reframing drag: beyond subversion and the status quo

by Stokoe, Kayte

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Title Statements

Full title :Reframing drag : beyond subversion and the status quo / Kayte Stokoe.

Summary

"Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American, queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive assumptions circulating in existing queer and feminist analyses of drag performance, the author identifies and questions three recurring ideas, which have shaped the landscape of drag research: the argument that drag performances either uphold or subvert oppressive gender norms, the assumption that drag involves performing as the 'opposite sex', and the belief that drag can shed light on gender performativity. Informed by a range of gender and queer theory, this work contends that an intersectional, transfeminist approach to drag performance can provide richer, more nuanced, understandings of drag, and, unlike the 'opposite sex' narrative, acknowledges the gender diversity at work in current drag scenes"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 180 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0429458444, 9780429857737, 042985773X, 9780429857744, 0429857748, 9780429857751, 0429857756, 9780429458446
oclc:on1107160384
LC Classification:HQ77
Dewey Decimal:306.77/8

Subjects

Acteurs travestis Cross-dressers Cross-dressing Drag shows Female impersonators SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology Transvestism Travestis Travestisme